GLEP: 6 Title: Gentoo Linux monthly bug day Version: $Revision: 1.4 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2003/11/10 19:03:31 $ Author: Brian Jackson Status: Final Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 02-Jul-2003 Post-History: 09-Jul-2003, 28-Jul-2003 Credits ======= I stole this idea from liquidx who probably stole it from one of the many projects that do something similar. Abstract ======== Gentoo Linux should have one day a month that is devoted to clearing out bugs, and accepting new ebuilds from bugzilla. This one day a month should not replace a developers normal bug tracking duties. This "bug day" should become something that involves the user community to make them feel closer to the developers. Motivation ========== I believe this would help keep the number of bugs in bugzilla at a lower level. This would also be a good chance for some user submitted ebuilds to be commited that would normally go overlooked. I think this is a good idea. We could turn this into a big deal for the user community Specification ============= This doesn't require any coding. It just requires one day each month that little other than bug closing will happen. I would like to see all developers participate, but I know it's unlikely that we could get everybody free on the same day. The majority of the people that have had an opinion have suggested a weekend day. We will have bugday's on a Saturday. Gentoo developers can try to get some of the users to help them out. A prize to the most succesful developer was suggested. This is an idea to keep in mind for the future. I guess I'm going to be the one coordinating this until I get help, but when I do get help in coordinating this we can coordinate via irc if all parties are capable, or email if not. I will send out a notice telling the details at least one week in advance to the -dev, -core, and -user mailing lists. Rationale ========= Gnome [1]_ , Mozilla, Zope [2]_ , and other open source projects do something similar with good success. References ========== .. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/triage/faq.html#II .. [2] http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays Copyright ========= This document has been placed in the public domain.