On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:23:46 -0700, tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:58:59 -0500, Adam Babcock adam@nemesys.ca wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
I have a totally non-original idea for sessions called Bug Busters where, at a designated time, a group of wine developers would get together on #winehackers (or some other channel). We would pick a bug (or maybe more) from wine's bug tracker and work together to fix the bug(s). This would serve several good purposed. First, we would be giving more attention to wine's bugzilla and getting rid of a lot of those bugs. Second, many newcomers can witness and take part in the wine development process. I'm sure everyone can remember how daunting it is to jump into wine development. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas or would like to take part in this, let me know and we'll get this started.
This is a good idea, same idea as Gentoo Bug Days, and those have been extremely successful.
Awesome, I think it could be really successful with wine too.
This is a good idea but how do we decide which bug(s) to fix... Here is what I think.
- The program that the bug involves has to be available to anyone. at least for
the first sessions (Search for keyword download in bugzilla reveals 146 candidates) http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?product=Wine&keywords_type=allwords&a...
Older bugs bugs should be fixed first.
More Popular programs should be take higher priority
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Tony Lambregts
I agree that programs should be freely available to anyone if the bug requires a program. Some of the bugs don't need them. I also agree that the older bugs should be fixed first. We might even find that a bunch of bugs we try to fix have already been fixed (it's good to clean up bugzilla too). My thought is that we would pick the bugs before the sessions so that anyone interested can research the problems beforehand and we know what we're going to work on for the session. Another option is that we pick the bugs to work on during the session. I think both options are convenient and worth considering. It's ultimately up to the community though.