Magnus Enger wrote:
* GSOD #1 [...] You can see a more or less complete list of what bugs were changed here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Global_sign_off_day,_2011-06-15
Thanks for the summary, Magnus! I was unaware of that page, so did not edit it when reviewing or signing off. Editing a wiki page seems a bit odd: doesn't bugzilla track status and who's working on a bug already? Commenting on the bug or hopping on IRC seems a good idea if you absolutely want to avoid the risk of "two signoffs, one bug" (I apologise for that image ;-) ).
As far as I can tell we were about 6 people signing off on things
JOOI, how can you tell that?
* GSOD #2
BibLibre have said all their staff will dedicate half a day every two weeks to signing off on bugs and similar tasks (woohoo!). I would like to propose another GSOD to coincide with their first such day, which is scheduled for 2011-07-08. Motto: "The more, the merrier"!
I send my regrets. I think that's the second Friday of Co-operatives Fortnight here and I will be occupied with co-op community events.
Some questions spring to mind:
- How can we get more people involved?
- Should the name of the "event" reflect that other activities (such as closing bugs) are encouraged too?
Yes, if they are. Bug Squashing Party is used in debian. http://wiki.debian.org/BSP
- How can we make it even more fun? -- Better/other lists and visualisations? -- Could we have the huginn bot on IRC annonunce new signoffs, the same way it does "needs signoff"s? -- Could we use some kind of VoIP/videoconferencing tools to make the social interactions seem more um... "real"?
I'm unsure about conferencing because it seems like it would need its own effort to set up (I'd go for a simple SIP party-line, but I'm sure there are others using incompatible systems which I wouldn't want to use either) and keep running. It may also suffer from the synchronisation problem worse than IRC currently does. Yes to lists and bots - maybe we could reuse some of the tools from another bugzilla-using project's bug-squash party? I'm not sure where to look for that though.
Or is GSOD a really bad idea, would it be better to channel our energy into making signoffs (and similar activities) look more like an ongoing task, and less something you only have to think about once a month?
I think spot events are good when we want to bring a count down. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha