Hi all - In an effort to better keep up with the collector, I'd like to throw out the idea of doing periodic "bug days" (a la the mozilla bug days), where Zope geeks and committers would get together on IRC and spend a few hours knocking out issues. I've drafted a preliminary bug day manifesto that describes how it would work in a little more detail: http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays I'd like to hear what people think, as well as work out a few logistics: - Given the wide geographic area that committers (and patch submitters) cover, what is a good time of day for a bug day to start / end (where start and end are always going to be fuzzy, of course). - Would it be better for bugdays to be ad-hoc, or should we try to set up regularly-scheduled bugdays at some reasonable interval? If the latter, we need to come up with a day / time that is agreeable to as many of the committers as possible. Thoughts? -Brian
Brian Lloyd wrote:
In an effort to better keep up with the collector, I'd like to throw out the idea of doing periodic "bug days" (a la the mozilla bug days), where Zope geeks and committers would get together on IRC and spend a few hours knocking out issues.
Yes, this would be *very* cool, if for no other reason than to try to thin out the Collector. I made one pass over it today and found a few that never got closed when resolved, etc. What several of them seemed to fall into, though, were ones that really merited a discussion of some sort to resolve, preferably with a senior engineer of some sort present to at least bounce ideas off.
- Given the wide geographic area that committers (and patch submitters) cover, what is a good time of day for a bug day to start / end (where start and end are always going to be fuzzy, of course).
I'm sure I could swing a weekday every once in awhile (during the workday, EST) at work.
- Would it be better for bugdays to be ad-hoc, or should we try to set up regularly-scheduled bugdays at some reasonable interval? If the latter, we need to come up with a day / time that is agreeable to as many of the committers as possible.
Better make 'em scheduled, or no-one will show. :-)
Brian Lloyd wrote:
Hi all -
In an effort to better keep up with the collector, I'd like to throw out the idea of doing periodic "bug days" (a la
An excellent idea.
I'd like to hear what people think, as well as work out a few logistics:
- Given the wide geographic area that committers (and patch submitters) cover, what is a good time of day for a bug day to start / end (where start and end are always going to be fuzzy, of course).
Europe late afternoon = EST morning How would 1700 UTC (GMT) be for most people?
- Would it be better for bugdays to be ad-hoc, or should we try to set up regularly-scheduled bugdays at some reasonable interval? If the latter, we need to come up with a day / time that is agreeable to as many of the committers as possible.
We should try regular to start with, and then make a judgement based on its success (or lack of). Week days are best for me. seb
Europe late afternoon = EST morning How would 1700 UTC (GMT) be for most people?
People generally asleep between 12am and 6am. Therefore the best time is logically 2am or so central Pacific time (affecting very few) This is corresponds to 2pm GMT, 9am US EST, etc Adam
I don't think we can do the geographic coverage without making it too painful. We should split bug days in half; a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the afternoon. --Paul Brian Lloyd wrote:
Hi all -
In an effort to better keep up with the collector, I'd like to throw out the idea of doing periodic "bug days" (a la the mozilla bug days), where Zope geeks and committers would get together on IRC and spend a few hours knocking out issues.
I've drafted a preliminary bug day manifesto that describes how it would work in a little more detail:
http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays
I'd like to hear what people think, as well as work out a few logistics:
- Given the wide geographic area that committers (and patch submitters) cover, what is a good time of day for a bug day to start / end (where start and end are always going to be fuzzy, of course).
- Would it be better for bugdays to be ad-hoc, or should we try to set up regularly-scheduled bugdays at some reasonable interval? If the latter, we need to come up with a day / time that is agreeable to as many of the committers as possible.
Thoughts?
-Brian
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