The BugDay reunion tour is coming to an IRC channel near you. It's been a long time since the last BugDay (1 year and 9 months to the day, as noted by Simon) and, in Bugzilla, it shows.
When I agreed to go to work for the Mozilla Foundation, and we were hashing out my job responsibilities, it became pretty obvious that I needed to get re-engaged with the community of Mozilla testers and bug triagers. Coincidentally, Simon Paquet contacted me at about the same time to discuss reviving BugDays.
"What is BugDay?" you ask. You can read my MozillaZine announcement from the first BugDay that took place 4 years ago this month (wow). For those of you that are too lazy to click that link, here's an excerpt:
Bugday, what is it? BugDay is an informal collaborative bug hunting effort and an opportunity to become comfortable with Mozilla the browser and Bugzilla, mozilla.org's bug reporting tool.When and where is it? The (hopefully) soon to be weekly event is hosted by #mozillazine at irc.mozilla.org [feel free to use mozillaZine's Java-based IRC client in our chat area - mozadmin]....
Who is going to be there? Everyone is welcome. If you want Mozilla better sooner then make it happen. We will have first time as well as veteran bug hunters/reporters. We hope to have Mozilla developers and quality assurance people. Anyone with an interest in furthering Mozilla is invited.
What do I need to bring? We'll be focusing on finding and reporting new bugs as well as verifying and commenting on old bugs, so grab the most recent build you can get, make note of any bugs you've found but not reported and come prepared to surf, search and report.
What do I do when I get there? That's an easy one. You'll surf the web, compose mail, read newsgroups, all with Mozilla. When something doesn't work as it should you say something in the channel."
BugDay will be a great way to mingle with other Mozilla users, developers and QA people, so stop by if you get a chance. If you're not familiar with filling out but reports, there will be plenty of people there to answer questions and help you out.
You can get a taste of BugDays past by reading various MozillaZine announcements and discussions (like here, here, here, here, here, and here).
Now, these days we tend to have a pretty good number of testing, resulting in a large inflow of new bug reports, so I hope we can focus the efforts of the All New and Improved BugDay on triage and bug management. I'll be working with Simon to plan for the revival and hopefully we can kick it off in the coming weeks. Some of the details that need to be worked out are where we're going to put the focus (we've got a few different apps now) and who will be available help assist new contributors. Simon or I will try to keep you all posted and there'll be announcements on MozillaZine when we ramp things up. Stay tuned.
In the mean time, if you're interested in helping out or participating, let us know in the comments over at Simon's blog or here.
Posted by asa at November 12, 2003 07:10 PM