Wow. For the second week in a row, we had a really good turnout for BugDay. Several new people learned their way around Bugzilla and worked with a strong group of regular contributors to resolve more than 295 bugs as Worksforme, Invalid, and Duplicate. That's amost 5 times the normal daily volume of (invalid/dupe/wfm) bug resolving.
We need to continue this effort if we're going to turn the tide in Bugzilla. In this last week, with the strong BugDay, there were 939 bugs resolved. In that same period, there were 766 new bugs reported. This roughly parallels the week before (963 resolved, 631 new reported) which also had a great BugDay. As you can see, we're really putting a dent in it, cutting the overall number of bugs by an average of about 250 bugs per week. But the last two weeks are in stark contrast to normal no-BugDay weeks where we average about 725 new bugs and only about 625 resolutions so the database grows by about 100 bugs per week.
With these great clean-up days, we're turning the tide, and pushing that bug curve down. I'd really like to see this continue, but we need your help. Whether you're new to Mozilla (or Firefox) and would like to take your involvement to the next level, or you're an old hand and want to help bring some sanity to the bug system, stop in to #mozillazine on the server irc.mozilla.org any Tuesday. We'll have experienced quality assurance and testing team members on hand and we'll be working on lots of great activities for all ranges of contributors.
Remember, if it's Tuesday, it's BugDay!
