Xorg needs bug days

[Ian Romanick]

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Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:34:45AM -0400, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>Adam Jackson wrote:
>>
>>>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)
> 
> While I'll probably be sleeping through them (4-10am), I think it's
> a fantastic idea.  Should we inaugurate it on Wednesday the 27th?
> 
> 3-9pm US Eastern, 12-6pm US Western, 1900-0100 UTC, 2100-0300 CET,
> 4am-10am AEST; Wednesday, July 27th.

So, this makes me think of some of the points Bart mentioned in his talk
at DDC.  No matter when we have it, some part of the world will be fast
asleep.  Perhaps we can come up with a bot or something to log the
"juicy" bits in our wiki or something.  That would make it easier for
people to look back at what was accomplished, deferred, etc.
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