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Just as a reminder: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080701-bugday.xml |
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What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs |
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Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs |
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When: Saturday, July 5, in a timezone near you |
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What do you need to bring? |
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* A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC client |
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* Your bug. If you don't have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and your |
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skills |
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* Your favorite editor |
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* A way to test that your bug is fixed (asking people counts!) |
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* You don't need to know C, C++, or bash |
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What's a bug? Gentoo's way of tracking change requests. A change request can be anything from "I've |
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found a typo in foo" to "I've built this really useful program called bar but there's no ebuild for |
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it." Bugs have various levels of helpfulness, from identifying the existence of a problem to |
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localizing the problem to providing the patch to fix it. |
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There are bugs in documentation such as man pages as well as ebuilds and the source code that Gentoo |
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distributes. These bugs are problem reports. Bugs for things Gentoo doesn't do yet but you think |
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should be done are feature requests. Bugday is more about fixing problems than adding features, but |
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you won't be turned away if you want help with a new feature. |
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Want to know more about Bugday? It's held on the first Saturday of every month. It's an opportunity |
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for everyone to contribute to making Gentoo better, and eventually you might even become a Gentoo |
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developer. See the Bugday project page for more details. |
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Bugday is about community spirit. Gentoo is a community—there is no "me" and "them", there is only |
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"we," so instead of lobbying for "them" to fix your particular bug, work together to fix it! Bugday |
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is an opportunity to get help to help yourself. |
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If you've been wanting to get involved but weren't sure how, Bugday is a great way for you to see |
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what goes on in making a distribution and get involved in Gentoo. |
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Ricardo Saffi Marques |
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http://www.rsaffi.com |
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Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS |
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Institute of Computing - IC |
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P.O. Box: 6176 |
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University of Campinas - UNICAMP |
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13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil |
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