bug scrub - RFC

[Trevor Woerner <trevor.woerner@linaro.org>]

Hi everyone,

This is a "Request For Comments" email regarding a "bug scrub" party the
OE TSC would like to hold.


background:
It has been noticed that the number of bugs in the bugzilla[1] has been
climbing; it would be nice to hold a "bug scrub" event to raise
awareness of the bugzilla and hopefully get some issues resolved.


questions:
1) Currently it has been suggested this should be a 2-day event, should
these two days be during the week or over a weekend? In either case,
which 2 days?

2) Since this is an OE event, should it focus only on OE bugs[2], or
should it be generalized for any bug?

3) Should we create a sign-up sheet (wiki) to keep track of who is
participating, and which issues are being looked at by whom?

(anything else?)


notes:
1) If you or the company for which you work uses OE/Yocto, please
consider making this a company event and having/allowing the engineers
(to) participate.

2) Even if you're not a recipe-, or a build-, or a python-wizard there
are still many things you can do to contribute. Being able to reproduce
a bug or reporting that a bug can't be reproduced can sometimes be quite
helpful (sometimes this points to a host issue or to a bug's description
not being descriptive enough). Sometimes a bug is stuck in the "needs
info" stage which maybe you can provide.

3) Can anyone think of way to help "get the word out"?

4) It would be cool to be able to provide incentives to help people get
interested and contributing to knocking some bugs around. So if anyone
(*cough* Intel) has any neat hardware (*cough* Galileo, Edison) they
could offer as an incentive (or, conversely, if there's a board you'd
like to see Yocto target) please see about making that happen.


Thanks and best regards,
    Trevor



[1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org
[2]
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20DESIGN&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20DESIGN%20COMPLETE&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20IMPLEMENTATION&bug_status=IN%20PROGRESS%20REVIEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=WaitForUpstream&classification=Build%20System%20%26%20Metadata&list_id=156074&product=OE-Core&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&order=bug_id%20DESC&query_based_on=