Xorg needs bug days

[Alan Coopersmith]

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
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