Gavin Atkinson
2010-Aug-05 21:34 UTC
Please join us for Bugathon #7, this weekend (6th-9th August)
(bcc'd to freebsd-stable@, please reply to freebsd-current@) Hi all, Apologies for the late notice, but the bug team will be holding a bugathon this weekend. We'll be starting on Friday 6th, and continuing through Monday 9th, and the aim is to put a real effort into getting patches from PRs into a committable state, and get them committed. Some PRs will be invalid because either the bug no longer exists or was fixed without the PR being closed, identifying these is also of great benefit. The basic plan is to get as many volunteers and committers into the same place (#freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet), and work through some PRs. For this particular bugathon, we're planning on focusing on the ~1600 PRs which contain patches. Committers can help by being in the channel and available to review patches and commit them, but these events benefit especially from volunteers who are not committers: the more people who are able to look at PRs, evalaute the patches, and assess whether the patches are correct and/or the best solution to the problem, the better. If you've never been more than a user of FreeBSD then this is a great way to start to get involved - many of the bugs in the database are relatively simple to fix, and are just waiting for somebody with enough time to sit down and actually take a close look at the bugs. If you're able to evaluate patches and actually justify why the patch included is the correct solution then that is a huge help, too! So, please join us in #freebsd-bugbusters if you are free at any point over the weekend. I'll be in the channel pretty much all the time during the day (GMT) Friday - Monday, and other bugbusters/bugmeisters will be around over those four days too. Everybody is welcome to join us, the more eyes the better. We should hhopefully ave quite a few committers in the channel too, so there should be plenty of expertise available to review and commit the patches that are in a committable state. There are several wiki pages available for people who are interested in joining in, especially: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugathons/2010August http://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugathons/PRsWithPatches http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting/Resources Many thanks, Gavin