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Bug Day March 19, 2009

How to get help, how to get started, and schedule for Bugdays.

Bug days are conducted to reduce the number of UNCOnfirmed bugs in the bugzilla database, and to improve the quality of the bugs in the database.

Focus

Help shape Thunderbird 3. And help trunk testers who help us by reporting bugs.

component=General bugs - If you touch one, please change component to something better (even if it's just a guess). Especially critical and major bugs.

Swat, squash, pound, massage, improve unconfirmed trunk bugs:

• trunk/Thunderbird 3 UNCOnfirmed, no response ever (11 bugs, down from 14)
• trunk/Thunderbird 3 UNCOnfirmed, no activity in last 7 days (146 down from 150)

Other bugs that may interest you, from Bug queries or a variety from prior bugdays:

• UNCOnfirmed, major issues, no response ever (3 bugs, up from 6)
• IMAP UNCOnfirmed (130 bugs, unchanged)
• UNCOnfirmed component=:General (1) (271, Down from 277)
  (1) Move bug from General to another component if possible, in addition to other triage action.
• address autocomplete UNCO or changed<2007-06-22 (6 bugs) - vs all autocomplete (12 bugs)
• UNCOnfirmed, severity=minor bugs (83 down from 85)

• The following queries all exclude enhancements. They should trend to zero over time.
  • UNCO v0.9, v1.0, v1.5 (56 bugs)
  • Last of "old" NEW critical+major bugs (14 bugs) no comment since Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of "old" UNCO MailNews Core bugs (25 bugs) no comment since Jan 01, 2008
  • Last of "old" UNCO bugs (232 bugs) no comment since Jan 01, 2008
  • Last of all UNCO TB bugs (305 bugs) created before Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of all UNCO MailNews Core bugs (74 bugs) created before Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of "old" NEW bugs (383 bugs) no comment since Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of "old" NEW Calendar bugs (78 bugs) no comment since Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of "old" NEW MailNews Core bugs (705 bugs) no comment since Apr 07, 2007
  • Last of "old" ASSI/REOP MailNews Core bugs (79 bugs) no comment since Apr 07, 2007

Tips

Before starting, see the Bugdays page for information about what to do and how to get help. Don't be concerned if you don't understand everything, just ask for help.

Searching in bugzilla can be tricky - here are a few tricks that might help.

Results

For this bugday, the times of the sessions, accounting for 30mins [1] of grace period before and after each session, were as follows:

• Session 1
  • Start time: 2009-03-19 0530h PDT
  • End time: 2009-03-19 0830h PDT

• Session 2
  • Start time: 2009-03-19 1130h PDT
  • End time: 2009-03-19 1430h PDT

• Session 3
  • Start time: 2009-03-19 1830h PDT
  • End time: 2009-03-19 2230h PDT

• 17 hour duration
  • All sessions & intermediate rest time.
  • Start time: 2009-03-19 0530h PDT
  • End time: 2009-03-19 2230h PDT

Many thanks to volunteers and developers (total 5 - 10) who turned up for this bug day, and others that I may have possibly missed.

Notes:

• Spreadsheet of bugday results is compiled and updated after each session / bugday.
• The letter Q stands for the query with all the appropriate criteria, which over time may differ from the results that have been logged.
• [1] Session and period time includes 30mins before and after the official time period, so as to include early and late/spill over activity.
• [2] A resolution change may be non-terminal, for example a bug may have been reopened.