[TYPO3-dev] The future of Bug Days

[Steffen Müller]

Hi,

thank you for resuming this topic.

On 30.07.2011 11:44 François Suter wrote:
>
> Period/Duration:
>
> - less often, but longer OR more often, but shorter
> (Note: "less but longer" might be less than once a month, but a full
> week-end, like we are currently experimenting. "More but shorter would
> be a couple of core team members getting together (virtually or
> physically) and inviting others to join them on bug fixing for an
> evening or an afternoon, with little prior notice).
>

> Problems:
>
> - routine gets boring
> - day should change so that it's not always Friday
> (Note: this points back to the period/duration issue. OTOH it could be
> also initiating a Doodle and picking a favorable date).

Fix dates with a "longterm" plan help companies to schedule their staff 
for bugday participation. See Jonas offer in the comments:
http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-bug-weekend-july-29th-31st-2011/
So the drawback of flexible dates is a loss of participants which need 
forward planning.

-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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