On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 04/27/2012 07:03 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
We've had several special days in the past:
* Deprecation day ** 26 April 2012: http://markmail.org/thread/c5oytyvgw6fcimqq
* Bug fixing days: ** 11 june 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/oyfxis3umqrvutxm ** 18 June 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/brfx6gme37vgr3m5 ** 25 Jun 2008: http://markmail.org/message/nrobo3x4ppgssklk ** July 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/mn5veblndbtgcsm5 ** 10 Feb 2011: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/rierrb2wk72dkpqy and result http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/BugFixingDayFebruary2011
Also: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=keyword...
* DocHour days: ** 5 March 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/dyypju5dn23wkwr2
I think it's a good concept and I'd like to propose that we regularly (once every month?) have an XWiki Day.
Ideas for such days:
* Bug fixing day: Reduce bug count * Doc day: improve xwiki.org * Deprecation day: reduce # of deprecated calls. Around 1700: http://nemo.sonarsource.org/drilldown/violations/XWIKI?&rule=squid%3ACallToD... * Violation day: reduce # of violations. 10274 right now: http://nemo.sonarsource.org/drilldown/violations/XWIKI * Javadoc Day: Add missing javadocs in our code and remove checkstyle excludes * Code Coverage Day: Add as many tests as possible (unit and functional) * Broken Links Day: fix as many broken links as possible on xwiki.org. To find them is easy: we just need to enable the IRC Link Checker botlet and wait on IRC to get them!
I propose that whenever a day is over, we send a mail with the Date and Topic for the next day and it has to be about 1 month from the date of the mail.
To get this started I volunteer to be responsible for sending Day emails for now, unless someone else is interested to do this.
WDYT?
+1, although I've had mixed results with this kind of events. I stopped proposing bugfixing days after I got almost no participation the last time.
Yes it works only if enough people participate. We could decide that we do a "Day" only if we have at least 4 participants for example. When we send the email to propose the next day, people who wants to participate reply and we send a reminder the day before for example. For the 1st Deprecation Fixing Day we got 5 participants which was good. I was expecting 1 or 2 more but 5 was a nice score. Thanks -Vincent