KDE/Bug Slashing/20080920

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You can directly contribute to the openSUSE distribution by getting involved on openSUSE KDE Bug Slashing days. On these days we'll try to all collaborate in dealing with bugs and clearing up KDE3 and KDE4 bugs on the Bugzilla. Bug triaging efforts are encouraged all the time however in the #opensuse-kde channel all the time.

About

The openSUSE KDE team wants to dedicate some time on KDE bugs before openSUSE 11.1 gets released, focusing on reported KDE bugs on bugzilla.novell.com inviting the community to take part of it. The openSUSE KDE Bug Squashing day is schedule to 20-21 September (right after openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 release), and the main goal is to have zero bugs!

During the event the community will be in the #opensuse-kde channel on irc.freenode.org to help you out in whatever you might need. The openSUSE KDE mailing list is also a valid and good way to communicate with the KDE community.

• Where: #opensuse-kde
• When: 20-21 September 2008
• Focus: Kill KDE bugs!

To successfully achieve all these tasks, the openSUSE KDE team needs as many willing people as possible. These people should meet the following requirements to better help us debugging, though not restricted to:

• An updated openSUSE 11.0 or openSUSE 11.1 system
• KDE 3.5.10 installed from KDE:KDE3 OBS repository
• KDE 4.1 installed from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop OBS repository

Tasks

Ordered by prioritising we have the following list:

• Find duplicated bugs, and obviously close then as DUPLICATE;
• Non openSUSE KDE bugs (KDE upstream bugs) should be:
  • Reported on bugs.kde.org (if not yet);
  • Added the upstream bug URL to the URL field on bugzilla.novell.com;
  • Closed as UPSTREAM (resolution field).
• Filter KDE 4.0 bug reports and try to reproduce them on KDE 4.1:
  • If you can't reproduce close them as WORKSFORME and leave a comment as it was most probably fixed on KDE 4.1;
  • If you still can reproduce them, try to investigate why/how that happens (eg: step-by-step on how to reproduce) and state it's still reproducible;
• Same as above but for KDE 4.1 - taking in consideration the quickly development of KDE4 it's really easy that those bugs reported have been fixed meanwhile.
• Help providing info for bugs marked as NEEDINFO.
• Set priority for bugs with Priority = P5(None).
• Explore KDE3 and KDE 4.1 looking for bugs. See if KDE3 ones are fixed for KDE4. Bug report them.

Note: Start from higher severity/priority bug reports to lower ones.

Bugs

Add yourself in this list and join your crew to better tracking and handling.

See also

• Bugs/Definitions
• Bugs:KDE
• KDE
• KDE/KDE4
• KDE/Challenges
• KDE/Ideas/11.1