[Mageia-dev] BugSquad initiation!

Thu Feb 3 19:25:28 CET 2011

On 3 February 2011 18:35, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> This is copy of email that was sent some time ago (about two weeks) to
+> the bugsquad mailing list, and to everyone who put his name down in
+> the triage page in the wiki.
+>
+> After discussions, it was seen wise to send a fresh copy to the
+> Mageia-dev and Mageia-discuss mailing lists, in the hope that people
+> who are interested in triage work can participate :)
+>
+> Please *reply to* this email directly on the mageia-bugsquad mailing
+> list (please be careful as this email has -dev and -discussion lists
+> in CC :)).
+>
+>
+> This is just an introduction email, to get the team started/organised.
+> Unlike other teams we are not in a rush, since, well, we still don't
+> have any bugs (something you probably won't hear/read ever again :));
+> still it's a good idea to start now.
+>
+> As you can see on the triage page:
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=triage There's now a documentation
+> section, it's recommended to read those articles carefully (don't
+> worry, it's not as complex as it looks, if you've ever used a bugzilla
+> you already know a lot of the information in those articles).
+>
+> The communications methods will be:
+> - The BugSquad Mailing list:
+> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-bugsquad
+> - Our own IRC channel #mageia-bugsquad on Freenode.
+>
+> We're going to hold the BugSquad first meeting on IRC,
+> #mageia-bugsquad on Freenode at 20h UTC ('date -u' in terminal on your
+> system will show the time in UTC) on Tuesday the 25th of January.
+>
+> Using IRC is quite simple, use any IRC client from the repos, Quassel,
+> Konversation, xchat-gnome, kvirc; most of them are configured to join
+> Freenode by default, you just join #mageia-bugsquad channel; easiest
+> way is typing this command in the input box (after you connect to
+> Freenode):
+>
+> /join #mageia-bugsquad
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+
+Of course the day of the meeting changed! same time, next Tuesday,
+that's the 8th of February.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+