[TYPO3-dev] The future of Bug Days

[Jigal van Hemert]

On 22-7-2011 17:47, François Suter wrote:
>>>> Just a wild guess, but could it be that the decrease of
>>>> particpiants is not due to routine, but just the contrary:
>>>> Missing routine with the new git/gerrit-concept, which is at
>>>> least overly complicated to set up compared to the "old school"
>>>> SVN, people are used to?
>> Might be, but those who have the routine already are much more
>> productive.
>
> Remarks duly noted, but please don't side-track the Bug Day thread.

The thread was about ideas for the future of Bug Days (or alternatives). 
Part of finding ideas is to analyse the reasons why the current concept 
is not working any more.

> The move to Git/Gerrit is definitely not the only reason the Bug Day
> attendance has dropped.

It doesn't need to be the only reason, but let's assume that it is one 
of the reasons and maybe a major reason. We've already seen that the 
overall activity in development has dropped and in this light it is not 
surprising that Bug Day attendance has dropped too.
During a Bug Day you need a certain minimum, a critical mass, of 
attendance to keep the day going. If a person joins the IRC channel and 
only a few people are there and hardly any response comes to the 
questions someone asks, the result is often that that person leaves 
after a short period. If there was more activity at that time it would 
be more likely that that person would stay and test/fix a few bugs.


> If you want to discuss the Git/Gerrit problems, please open a
> separate  thread.

There are already numerous threads which try to touch this problem. 
Unfortunately there are no real answers given there. I can't blame the 
git fans, they already have it the way they want it to be, so why should 
they spend any time defending this choice?

It is hard to find a causation between the choice for git/gerrit and the 
decrease in activity, but the two events started at the same moment.

Some thoughts about the Bug Days will go in a reply to the original post.

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Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert.