GNOME/BugDays/20071128

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The code name for this Bug Day is "Tidying Up"

What: cleaning up openSUSE 10.2 and older bugs

• Effort to clean up Gnome-related bugs from openSUSE 10.2 and earlier.
• For the sake of completeness, this query includes Evolution, Firefox, Mono, OpenOffice.org, and Xgl bugs.
• At last count, there were 98 such bugs.
• openSUSE 10.2 is available here.
• openSUSE 10.1 is available here.

When: 28 November

28 November 2007, with Mark Gordon from Novell in attendance from 10 AM EST (1500 UTC) to 6 PM EST (2300 UTC).

Where: #openSUSE-gnome

FreeNode #openSUSE-gnome

Why: it will make life easier

1. Close irrelevant bugs in order to make it easier to find relevant bugs.
2. Draw attention to bugs which are still relevant.

How: roll up your sleeves

• While he's in, Mark will coordinate who is working on which bug so as to try to avoid needless duplication of effort.
• Bugs which have been fixed in subsequent versions of openSUSE can be resolved FIXED.
• Bugs may also be resolved INVALID, NORESPONSE, etc. as appropriate.
• Bugs which are still valid in 10.3 and sufficiently important may be moved to the openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0 product.
  • Please mark the OS field in bugzilla with the original distro the bug was found in
• Bugs which are still valid but for which we are unlikely to commit resources (or which we'd rather have fixed in close coordination with the upstream community) should be tagged with the should_go_upstream keyword
• When upstream bugs already exist for should_go_upstream bugs, the upstream bug's URL should be noted in our bug, which can then be resolved LATER. Someone should get CC'ed on the upstream bug in order to note changes.
• When no upstream bug exists for a should_go_upstream bug, and the bug is still valid in current upstream code, a bug should be filed upstream, and the URL for the new upstream bug should noted in our bug, which we can then resolve LATER.
• Details of the bug policy are available elsewhere.
• Virtualization might be useful when dealing with large numbers of older distros. Choices include VMWare and VirtualBox