Almost as exciting as the about screen contest is our other release tradition: The Bug Hunt!

Starting today, our goal will be to fix 500 "points" worth of bugs. High priority bugs are worth 9 points, Med are 6, and Low 3. We also now have 'Critical' bugs. We'll give 12 for those.

In the past we've found the Bug Hunt to be a fun way to work towards getting attention on bugs that have otherwise been languishing in the tracker.

We only give points for true bug fixes - not bugs simply closed due to being dupes, invalid, worksforme, or whatnot. Previously we would count fixes to the website, translations, docs, and so on, but this time let's award points only for true code-level bug fixes.

While our Frost goal is to close 500 points worth of *any* bug, when we get to Freeze our goal will be to have 0 Critical bugs, so efforts put into closing Crits will be doubly good!

Good luck everyone; I'll post the first scoreboard tomorrow. Bryce

P.S., my patch to add "open" bugs to the bug graphs was accepted and is now available in the live bug plots:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/inkscape-month...

Let's see if we can nudge the slope of this line down even steeper!