{Bug Hunting] Konsole

[Michael Jahn]

On Monday, 6. September 2004 00:44, Tom Albers wrote:
> Op maandag 6 september 2004 05:30, schreef Datschge:
> > On Sunday 05 September 2004 17:31, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> > I think the best solution for this would organizing regular bug
> > hunting days on IRC where people like you can gather and in cases
> > like you are stuck in right now you can timely discuss them.
>
> I think you do not need a bug hunting day to work on that. 

You don't necessarily need one for _that_, I agree.

> There are loads of bug reports which can be rewritten in a way developers 
can handle it quickly (like in a step-by-step-manual).
>
> Unconfirmed reports who are a few years old need checking if they still
> apply...
>
> We've done so with a couple hundred reports for kmail and together with
> finding duplicates you can really help the developers a lot.

And for that reason we should do a bug squashing day IMHO. I think there are a 
lot of users who would like to help but lack some motivation to get started 
on their own. A bug hunting day could give them the incentive. 

Especially konqueror could need some attention: Konqueror currently has 1786 
open bugs and 1204 open wishes [1] ! Our devs have better things to do then 
to verify all those bugs :-) and this task is far too large to be adressed by 
2-3 people. A lot of them are old and easy to verify. Most of the time it is 
just a link to webpage or an attached test case so there is almost no 
technical knowledge required. 

I would help in organizing a bug day especially 'adapting' some of the 
excellent documentation from our friends at gnome [2]. Their docs do a better 
job at helping new user than [3] or [4], IMHO. (No offense meant to the 
authors of these docs, the gnome people have been active for a far longer 
time.)

What do you think?

Regards,
Michael Jahn

[1]: http://bugs.kde.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi
[2]: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/ (look at Navigation Menu on 
the right side).
[3]: http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtobugs.php
[4]: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bug+Triage