Bugday

Bugday bug

Bugday is Article description::a single day each month devoted to development efforts pertaining to a certain area of the Gentoo project. See GLEP 0006 for more information on bug day's origin.

Next Bugday: Bugday 2021-02-06

Bugday focus: Installation Manual

Who: Gentoo community (developers and users) - organized by the Bug Wranglers project.

When: On the first Saturday of every month.

Time: 24h event (Gentoo is world wide)!

Meeting: The IRC channel #gentoo-bugday on Freenode.

How to prepare (highly suggested)

1. Create a Gentoo Bugzilla account.
2. Create a Gentoo wiki account.
3. Setup an IRC client (join #gentoo-bugday. See also our IRC channels: #gentoo, #gentoo-dev-help, #gentoo-proxy-maint).
4. Read our how to contribute page.

History of Bugday calendar

• Bugday 2021-01-02 — Bugday focus: Installation Manual
• Bugday 2020-12-05 — Bugday focus: LDFLAGS
• Bugday 2020-11-07 — Bugday focus: LDFLAGS
• Bugday 2020-10-03 — Bugday focus: Wiki documentation!
• Bugday 2020-09-05 — Bugday focus: BDEPEND testing!
• Bugday 2020-08-01 — Bugday focus: BDEPEND testing!
• Bugday 2020-07-04 — Bugday focus: -fno-common package testing!
• Bugday 2020-06-06 — Bugday focus: Wiki documentation and -fno-common package testing!
• Wishlist for future Bugdays

See also

• Contributing to Gentoo — explains how users can contribute to the development of Gentoo
• Submitting ebuilds — explains how to submit ebuilds through the Bugzilla bug tracking web application.
• Bugzilla/Guide — covers the recommended method of reporting bugs for Gentoo.
• Bugzilla/Bug report guide — explains how to report bugs on the Gentoo Bugzilla
• Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces — provides users with a simple explanation of why a default Gentoo installation does not provide meaningful backtraces and how to set it up to get them.
• devmanual: Ebuild Development Guide
• devmanual: The Basics of Autotools