Bugday/en

Next Bugday: January 7th, 2017

Who: Gentoo Community (developers and users) - organized by the Gentoo Bugday team.

When: Usually on the first Saturday of every month, when possible.

Time: 24h event.

Where: The #gentoo-bugs channel on Freenode IRC.

Requirements

1. Gentoo installation.
2. IRC client.
3. Gentoo Bugzilla account.
4. Wiki account (optional).
5. Good mood.

Tasks

1. Fix bugs.
2. Bug triaging.
3. Version bumps.
4. Close old fixed bugs.
5. Add or improve documentation here on the wiki.

Bugs lists

• Bugs with the Bugday flag
• maintainer-wanted (all packages)
• maintainer-wanted (new ebuilds)
• maintainer-wanted (version bump)
• maintainer-needed - Existing ebuilds that need a developer.
• bugs last touched by year

Wiki articles

• Requested articles - Interests our community would like to know more about, but haven't been written yet.
• Contribute to articles in the Todo category:
  • Dirty - Clean up 'dirty' articles by improving grammar, punctuation, or clarity.
  • Outdated articles - Bring outdated articles up to speed on current practices.
  • Stub - Fill stub articles article appropriate content.
  • Misused templates - Fix misused templates.
  • Wikify articles - Add proper formatting to articles that need wikification.
  • Todo articles - Cross off itemized tasks that need action.
  • Open discussions - Complete open discussions and mark them as done.
• Suggestions - Suggest wiki maintainers to make a wiki-wide change.

Bugs in progress

You can select bugs from the lists and add them here with your name/nick next to it in order to track who is working on what.

• Bugs can be touched by more than one user.

Documentation

• Gentoo Devmanual
• Contributing to Gentoo
• Submitting ebuilds
• Bugzilla (guide)
• Bugzilla (Bug report guide)
• Meaningful backtraces in Gentoo (Quality Assurance project)
• The basics of Autotools
• Feel free to add more!