Xorg needs bug days
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Thu Jul 21 06:34:45 PDT 2005
Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 16:14, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>>Adam Jackson wrote:
>>
>>>Subject says it all really. Having semi-formal weekly meetings on IRC
>>>has been a great help to other projects and there's no reason it wouldn't
>>>help us too. This would be a good way for us to keep the bug count down
>>>and to get new people started with hacking on X.
>>
>>For those of us who haven't participated in these before, what happens?
>>We just all get on IRC and start going through the list of open bugs?
>
>
> It's not quite as formal as just marching down the list from beginning to end.
> It's more like a designated time when people are known to be around.
> Developers who have things they're working on can get feedback on whether
> their approach looks good; people who have submitted patches can get the
> attention of a developer to get them reviewed and committed; people who are
> looking for ways to contribute can get pointed at things to start on.
> Ideally at the end you can say "we closed N bugs today", but it's not the
> primary goal. I guess "bug days" is a bit of a misnomer then ;)
>
> There's quite a bit of psychological value in knowing that people will be
> around. Latency is discouraging to someone looking for feedback, whether
> they're experienced in X or not.
This sounds like something it would be good to start as we get the
6.9 & 7.0 RC0 releases out soon.
The previous proposal was 3-9pm US Eastern time on Wednesdays - is that
good for everyone? (well, erm, everyone but those in Europe I guess)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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