Re: FreeBSD Test-Bugathon.... check

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:19 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:34:24 +0100
> Florent Thoumie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Following the example of our friends from NetBSD. We organized this
> > week-end what they called a Bugathon. Basically, people gather on an IRC
> > channel and discuss about some Problem Reports they either sent or are
> > interested in. This is a great opportunity to get things done faster and
> > get in touch with committers.
> > 
> > The Bugathon was only announced on -ports because we weren't sure to get
> > enough src committers, mainly because of the very short notice (it was
> > decided on friday evening CET).
> > 
> > Anyway, the result of the Test-Bugathon is that around 140 PRs have been
> > closed (kern:8, bin:2, ports:~100, i386:1, docs:7, www:4, usb:14,
> > conf:4, amd64:1). I'd like to thank all the committers and participants
> > who came, it was a lot of fun.
> > 
> > The test has proven its point so we'll definitely make new bugathons in
> > the near future. We haven't settled on a date yet, but an announcement
> > will be made once the date will be decided, at least two weeks before
> > the event.
> > 
> > In the meantime, don't hesitate to come to the IRC channel
> > #freebsd-bugbusters on EFNET or subscribe to the freebsd-bugbusters
> > mailing list.
> > 
> > Have fun fixing bugs!
> 
> I agree with Ceri, having a bug busting marathon during release
> cycle is probably bad; however, insta-MFCs are probably not a
> good thing anyway - even with single word fixes.  I'll be keeping
> all of my changes in a new mailbox file.  Once release cycle is
> over, the MFC will happen.

Well, HEAD isn't frozen and fixing bugs can't be bad.

> I think the doc count is below correct.  Ceri closed at least
> 4 IIRC, and I closed about 4-5 (some assigned to me).  But
> whatever, we'll need to keep a "score board" next time.

This will be the next feature of BugBuster, the Evil Bot, but it still
requires that committers say when they close a PR.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
[email protected]
FreeBSD Committer

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