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Past Bug Day Archives

August '06

Tuesday, Aug 1, 2006

• Back to Basics: General help for new bugzilla users
  • Bug Writing Guidelines
  • Triage "Bugs Filed Today" List
• Bobby, a new QA community volunteer, was the only participant in this weeks Back to Basics

July '06

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

• Open Topic day:
  • Bring your own topic for bug day
• no community participation

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

• Topsite testing and the tools available to report issues:
  • Topsite list: Alexa 100 (en)
  • How/When to use Report a Broken Website and Report a Phishing Site.
• MoCo QA and Interns verified the alexa top 100 looked fine. No participation from the community.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

• Firefox 2.0 Tabbed Browsing: Confirm, verify and file new bugs for the improved tabbed browsing features in Firefox 2.0beta1 builds
  • Bugs to verify: resolved bugs
  • Check the open bugs list before filing new ones.

• Again no participants in bug day. However, I verified 20 bugs in tabbed browser.

Week 10: Tuesday, July 4, 2006

• Back to Basics: General help for new bugzilla users
  • Bug Writing Guidelines
• no participants due to holiday

June '06

Week 9: Tuesday, June 27, 2006

• Bug Day off; host at MoFo quarterly meetings

Week 8: Tuesday, June 20, 2006

• Verifying Bugs: Complete the bug life cycle; verify the bug is actually fixed!
  • We'll be working a short list of Firefox 1.5.0.5 FIXED bugs : fixed1.8.0.5 bugs
    • Verified 20 1.5.0.5 Firefox bugs

Week 7: Tuesday, June 13, 2006

• Finding Dupes: How to find duplicate reports.
  • Please read Sean Richardsons's Screening Duplicate Bugs, it is an excellent primer for duplicate bug finding.
  • We'll be working this Bug List of recently filed unconfirmed Firefox bugs.
  • I'll explain Asa's clever use of Find A Specific Bug to uncover dupes.
  • Two new users came and learned how to dupe bugs. One other we gave can confirm privs for his work in Tbird bugs.

Week 6: Tuesday, June 6, 2006

• Back to Basics: General help for new bugzilla users
  • Bug Writing Guidelines
  • Walked through how to triage unconfirmed with three users fairly new to Bugzilla.

May '06

Week 5: Tuesday, May 30, 2006

• Open week: no topic prepared
  • Tracy hung out in #qa for an hour. No visitors interested in Bug Day

Week 3-4: Tuesday, May 16 and May 23 , 2006

• Gecko Layout Bugathon - We'll be pulling double duty of sorts this time around; As some triage and testcase reduction for unconfirmed layout bugs will be on our plate. We'll be working from the list below:
  • Unconfirmed Gecko Layout bugs

Week 2: May 9, 2006

• Talkback Topcrash Analysis - We'll be finding, creating and/or adjusting crash bugs so they appear on the Talkback Topcrash Reports. We will focus on the current Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch.
• Current Talkback Reports for the Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch:
  • for current topcrashers on the Firefox 2 branch, you can go here: http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2x/index.html
  • for old topcrashers at the time of alpha 1 (3/21), check out http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2a1/index.html
• Scheduled guest: Jay Patel - Talkback Guru and 1.5.0.4 QA lead.

Opening Day: May 2, 2006

• Reproducing Crash Bugs - learn more about what we'll be doing during our Bug Day!
• Scheduled guest: Jay Patel - Talkback Guru and 1.5.0.4 QA lead.