Xorg needs bug days

[Barton C Massey]

idr: thanks for cc-ing me.

Yeah, we should figure out what tools we need and who's
going to build them.  I'm thinking a tiny bit of tool
support will make a mixed sync/async "Bug Day" or whatever a
bigger success.  Count me in to help.

	Bart

In message <42DFDAED.70809 at us.ibm.com> you wrote:
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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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