Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:25:47PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On 9/16/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu@...398...> wrote:
Other projects keep from time to time some events called "bug party", when people clean the bug/feature tracker, collaborating over IRC and closing as much as possible as DUPLICATE, WON'T FIX, INVALID, RESOLVED or prioritizing. It may have the benefit of attracting new contributors and giving non-developers a way to contribute. What do you think about the opportunity/usefulness of such a bug party?
I like this idea too. Would either or both of you like to organize a bug party for this weekend?
This weekend is too soon, how about the next one?
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.
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.
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...)