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It's always time for a push at closing some Python bugs and patches.

When a new bug day is planned, announcements will be sent to the python-dev and python-list mailing lists.

Last bug day

Date: Friday, March 31st 2006.

Time: roughly 9AM to 4PM Eastern (1PM to 8PM GMT) (although the IRC channel won't close at any time ;-) )

People on the US West Coast may want to show up from 9AM to 3PM Pacific time (12PM to 6PM Eastern), because it'll be more convenient.

IRC log: ["/IrcLog-2006-03-31"]

Location

Participants will convene in the #python-dev IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. To learn more about IRC and to find links to IRC clients for various platforms, see http://www.irchelp.org.

Links

The list of bugs currently being worked on is recorded in the Wiki, on the PythonBugDayStatus page.

Procedures

The goal of the bug day is to process bug reports in [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470 the Python bug tracker] on SourceForge, providing additional information so that the bug can be fixed and closed. Bugs should be processed in the fashion described by [http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0003.html PEP 3].

What to do:

Questions?

If you have questions about the bug day, please add them to this section.

Previous bug days

The first bug day was held Saturday, June 5, 2004, from 9AM to 6PM EDT, ending early because SourceForge CVS stopped working. 30 bugs were closed, and 14 more bugs had enough work done to make them closable.

The second bug day was held July 10 2004. 18 bugs and 21 patches were closed.

The third bug day was Saturday, August 7th. 19 bugs and 12 patches were closed.

The fourth bug day was held Saturday, November 7th. 12 bugs and 10 patches were closed.

The fifth bug day was held Saturday, June 25th 2005. The bug day was ill-fated, as SourceForge was down at the beginning, the weather was hot around the world and the EuroPython conference took place on the same day. Nevertheless, 10 bugs and 7 patches were closed.

The sixth bug day was held Sunday, December 4th 2005. 11 bugs and patches were closed.

The seventh bug day was held Friday, March 31st 2006. 19 bugs and 9 patches (which were mostly submitted at the bug day itself) were closed.

Bug days for other projects

The [http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays Zope bug day] has a good description of what to do, though the details of the bug tracker are specific to the Zope project.

The GNOME community holds regular Bug Days; the procedures are described in [http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/triage/faq.html their FAQ].

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