Kia ora!

-- Better/other lists and visualisations?

A notch in the belt visualisation. You know you wanna.

-- Could we use some kind of VoIP/videoconferencing tools to make the social interactions seem more um... "real"?

Mumble, it's like Ventrilo, but bettah. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble/ The question would be would this leave a few folks out in the cold if they've a crap connection. Cheers, Brooke

Maybe there should be some kind of Bug Swatter Award given each month or after each GSOD session. I understand that closing out bugs is less sexy and exciting than developing something new so we need to recognize those that are willing to do that work. It is certainly equally important! Even if we don't have a cash prize or a bouquet to give the award recipient, there's nothing wrong with giving the developers some extra ++'s from the user community! Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant The Galecia Group // www.galecia.com (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre@galecia.com <Lori.Ayre@galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no> wrote:

Dear Community!

* GSOD #1

Our very first Global Signoff Day (GSOD) was held on 2011-06-15.

During the 48 hours that make up a day in all available time zones, we reduced the number of bugs that had status "Needs signoff" from about 76 to about 45. (There were some bugs that got the "Needs Signoff" status during the day, which complicates counting somewhat...)

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

See the bottom of this page for some more numbers, and keep in mind that the dates there are relative to UTC: http://bugs.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/progress.pl

As far as I can tell we were about 6 people signing off on things during GSOD #1, which is not an astronomical figure, but i still think we made some good inroads into the queue. (A number of the remaining bugs are actually ones that depend on other bugs that have failed QA, so they are not really available for signing off.) Imagine what we could have done if there were more of us... ;-)

* 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"!

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? - 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"?

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?

Best regards, Magnus Enger _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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