Hi, I've been meaning to push this for a while, but now seems to be the right time.
# Why October? First of all because I thought it would be appropriate to *squash* things on halloween season. Apart from it making me giggle, I see a marketing opportunity here. [0] But more importantly the fact that it's right after the release actually makes it a good time to test stuff. With a fresh version out the door it's the best moment to check if old bug reports are still relevant, and doing it at the beginning of a development cycle ensures maintainers get a clearer picture of what needs to be done. # What is it? A two part event with the goal of cleaning up our bug tracker. ## Online The GNOME community tries to focus on bug triaging for a month. We can organize several sessions at specific time and dates to do it together for a few hours, but we can also do it individually on our own time. Of course we welcome newcomers and help them get involved. ## In real life We organize gatherings or workshops (known as bug squashing parties) where local free software community members are taught how to triage bugs. # Feedback welcome What do you people say? Do you think we should do it? [0] So who's gonna draw us a pumpkin GNOME foot? :-) -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
