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# Gentoo BugDay |
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Come join us over at #gentoo-bugday on freenode IRC on the first Saturday of every month |
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to squash bugs and make Gentoo a bit more awesome. |
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You don't need to be a Gentoo developer or even a coder to help us on BugDay. |
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Our next BugDay is on 1st Aug 2020 and we have started making preparations for |
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selecting and prioritizing bug categories for that day. |
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## Bug categories |
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The bug categories should be broad enough that there will be a lot of bugs being targeted. |
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We keep a option poll open to everybody to help us narrow down the categories of bugs to |
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focus. |
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The opinion poll is there to get an input from everyone about how to best tackle the current |
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bug situation and get an understanding of the community and developer priorities. |
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The poll is open at https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Bugday_2020-08-01/ |
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Be sure to vote in the poll to get your opinion heard. |
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## For developers |
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Even if you have never coded for Gentoo you can help us with your knowledge. |
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It's always valuable to have your experience to guide us. |
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Things to help with |
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- Find a related bug that piques your interest. |
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- Look at upstream if this has been reported to them. |
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- If not, make a bug report to the upstream developers. |
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- If they have already seen it, check if they have managed to patch it. |
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- If not, try to gather as much information as you can about the bug so that |
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it may help the developer tackling it. |
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- Alert us at #gentoo-bugday and interact with us to see if this can be squashed. |
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## For users |
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Users are one of the most important part of Gentoo and this is the occasion for them to |
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talk the developers and make your bugs looked at. |
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Take a look at the categories for BugDay at the poll link and the final BugDay wiki page |
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- Find a related bug that you have experienced and has not been fixed yet |
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- Try to see how it can be reproduced. |
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- The related bug reports have been ignored for months you say? |
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Come poke us about these bugs at #gentoo-bugday on the freenode IRC |
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and we will begin squashing any of those that are pending. |
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## Whats in it for me? |
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Bragging rights, permanently being listed on the charts of BugDay, sense of entitlement. |
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Any person who helps us solve valid problems will be given the honor of being listed on the page. |
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Even users who help related bugs and find links which make our problem solving easier will be put on a pedestal. |
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## Contributors |
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Thanks a lot to jstein@ for being the gracious organizer and making sure everything goes smoothly. |
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And special thanks to contributors who have worked on our previous BugDays. |
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Past contributors: |
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- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday_2020-06-06 |
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- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday_2020-07-04 |