Re: [chat] bugsquishing parties

[Conrad Parker <conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:25:38PM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:24:58PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:
> > I reckon we should hold more bugsquishing parties in SLUG. (ok, more than
> > zero is not difficult, but it's a start). There's plenty of things we
> > could get together and squish the bugs of, either in a fest environment
> > (where we could simultaneously learn how to squish the particular bugs :)
> > and randomly, via irc or whatever.
> 
> Bugsquishing is a good way to learn about the code of a project you want
> to get involved in too. Perhaps if there is a group of people with
> varying levels about the codebase of a particular project, they could
> work together on doing some bug squishing.
> 
> Anyone got any particular project they really want to do some developing
> on but can't deal with the thought of the learning curve associated with
> the codebase (many of them, in my case).
> 

yeah, I was thinking of debconfing stuff because it's more about
packaging not necessarily coding, so it would be good for non-coders
too ...

K.