QA/Community/Bug Day

Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Bug Day wiki!!

Bug Days are an excellent way to contribute to Mozilla's QA efforts. It doesn't matter if you've been involved with Mozilla for years or if this is your first step into our amazing open source community. Anyone can participate and be a valuable contributor. We gather together at predetermined times to work on areas in Bugzilla. The exact area or topic for Bug Day may vary week to week. But the general idea is to work through some sort of bug list as a team.

Community Representatives

We'd like to start recruiting a few individuals from the community to take under our wings and give a larger role in community QA projects like Bug Days and Test Days.

Staying Connected

• Click here to join the mailing list.
• Hang out in #qa when we're not scheduled in #bugday or #testday
• Keep an eye on this page. Weekly updates will be posted by Thursday afternoon (California time)
• Read the Mozilla QA blog

Schedule <-- New! Check this out.

In an effort to make Bug Days more accessible to interested folks around the globe, I've decided to split up Bug Day into three 2 hour sessions. Below is the schedule we'll use to catch East Asia, Europe and the USA in "prime time."

• East Asia session: 8pm-10pm in Tokyo, Japan gmt+9
• Europe session: 8pm-10pm in Paris, France gmt+2
• USA session: 6pm-8pm in San Francisco, CA. gmt-7, 9pm-11pm in N.Y., NY. gmt-4

Topic of the Day

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006

• Firefox 2.0 unconfirmed bug triage
  • We'll looking at this bug list of Firefox 2.0 General Unconfirmed bugs.
  • If that list becomes empty, we'll use this broader bug list of all Firefox 2.0 Unconfirmed bugs.

Review of last week

Discussed with a few visitors ideas for improving Bug Day participation. The biggest concern seemed to be the event time not being convenient for most.

FAQ

Where do I start?

• The following documentation is good to become familiar with for anyone working on Mozilla projects:
  • Mozilla QA linked to from the "For Testers" section of mozilla.org/developer
  • A good document on how to find existing bugs
  • Read Bug Writing Guidelines to learn how to write effective bug reports that lead to bug fixes.
• Review the documentation specific to the topic of the day.
• Join the #bugday channel <-- Changed channel
  • Go to your favorite IRC client
    • Windows clients
    • MacOS clients
    • Linux clients
  • Connect to irc.mozilla.org and "/join #qa"
  • Then, just ask the moderators how you can help for the topic of the day.

What build should I be testing with?

• Get the latest Bon Echo builds, the release of the Firefox browser still in development.