On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Valerie Juarez valerie.m.juarez@gmail.com wrote:
Last week we had our first Bug Day of the year.
*---How it Went*--- We looked at bugs (excluding enhancements) that had not seen any changes in over a year, a little over 250 bugs. The bugs came from a number of different products and components. We started looking at the bugs in "General/Unknown." Attendance was lower than what we wanted. Andre, Matanya, and I triaged bugs and had help from developers in #wikimedia-dev.
Probably a good idea to send an email to wikitech-l and mediawiki-l about a day before these things happen, and another one immediately when they start.
- Hosting the event in a different IRC channel
developers on the channel, but it was hard to tell if users joining were there for the Bug Day. We felt greeting each user that joined could have increased noise on the channel, and could have been annoying to other users. We may hold the next even in #wikimedia-office if there
- We held the event in #wikimedia-dev. We were able to get help from
are no other meetings scheduled for that time.
Wouldn't that further reduce participation?
Thank you for your participation and support! We hope the coming Bug Days will get better and better.
Thank you for hosting this. While I couldn't make this one, I hope to help out in a future bug day!
Cheers, Bawolff