On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:19:22PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Sure, that would work. What do you think needs to be done to organize it?
The first thing would be to find a time interval when at least a few people with experience on Inkscape and bug tracker will be available on the channel. It should allow people from different time zones to participate. I don't have experience with this and can't say what an optimal duration is.
IIRC, when we set up the Scribus meeting we found that around 9-10am PST seemed to work well.
Also, I think if we made it an all day event, then people could join or leave as desired, so we'd just need to be sure it fit the times when folks would be able to work.
Maybe we could say it's going to be an all-weekend event, but we will set aside two 4-hour periods each day when we guarantee there will be developers on channel. Looking at yesterday's irc log, it looks like 8-12 PST was fairly active, and then again from 16-20. How do those periods sound?
Then we should popularize the event. I think it should be announced on users list, front page, blogs and friendly mailing lists, like OCAL or Scribus. If we want to make it a big event the we can put even an announcement on gnomedesktop.org.
Good ideas. Probably for the first one it might be good to start with just our existing community, but for future ones it'd be valuable to advertise it more widely.
Would you like to go ahead and draft up an announcement in Wiki for this? We should probably aim to get word out no later than Wednesday.
Also, we should make a wiki page with rules and instructions, like "if a bug report is one release old/one month old, we can't reproduce it and don't have any follow-up from the poster, it can be closed". We need some rules for marking a bug as "won't fix" or "not a bug", and what is harder, rules for rejecting RFEs - we were polite and accepted any RFE, but to be honest, there are some request which *never* will be implemented, like "Inkscape as Eclipse plugin" (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1116021&gro...)
Yeah. I bet the best place for this is the Reporting Bugs page.
Do you think there should be specific tasks we'd ask them to do, or just sort of a free-for-all bug finding/fixing party?
Bryce