For one, otherwise I won't notice that you did. Two, unless I know your nick from elsewhere, I won't have the foggiest idea who you are. You might as well tell me. Three, you may want other methods of communicating with me...

Yes, apparently.

!!!
Ossi wants to join in on Seli's challenge...!

(He's more specific too: He gives a time limit of next year's aKademy for us, and will dye it for an aKademy he goes to.)

Anybody else jealous of the attention being heaped on Seli?

So Lubos/Seli made disparaging noises as to whether or not BugSquad would do much good:
"I'll believe it when I'm not in the commit digest."

Now if you look at that query I put in my last post, you'll see a bunch of people with brand new bugzilla accounts (plus some old-timers!) who are all in the top. (FiNex, nixeagle, lemma, pino, brams, grundleborg are all accounts I recognize.)

Unfortunately, you'll also see l.lunak clocking in at #5. So he has a point. And it's a good one: we'll be self-sustainable in the long-run if it isn't just a few people doing this. If we can get people to do regular triage, and continue to participate in BugDays, we should easily have ten people who will kick all the developers out of the top ten.

So upon further talking with Seli, he told me he'd dye his hair blue for aKademy if we could reliably kick him out of the top twenty. This is totally doable for us! He closes about ten bugs a week, so all we have to do is find enough people to beat that, and we're set. Now this doesn't mean you can just look at ten bugs and close them. Odds are they'll be valid, and verifying them is important too, even if it won't put you on the commit digest. So at the risk of making people bug-closing crazy (remember: even if a website isn't reachable, sometimes there's still enough information to reproduce what the underlying issue is), I give you this challenge: Close more bugs than Seli. Help us turn his hair blue!

(If you've helped out before, drop back by channel, and we should be able to give you some closable bugs. And a woot to katastrophe, jtamate, Jannex, Talavis, and szotsaki for having started on "Sunday"'s BugDay already! Some of us are going to have to finish work first.... Thanks also to Grundleborg for setting up this week's page! Oh, hey, look, that's eleven people already... Ha, I should also thank Seli for being such a great sport about this. :)

I was asked a good question last night, "Why does BugSquad keep doing Konqueror?" There's a few answers to that. For one, it's an easy place to start. You don't need to know much about how KDE is supposed to work. Also, the old documentation did a nice job of talking about triaging Konq, so that made it easy to go and update it. But the best reason is that if you look at the bugzilla stats, you'll see that Konqueror is at the top of the "open bugs" list, with 2677 open bugs. Kmail is next with 1471 open bugs, and then things drop dramatically: kio has 641. If you look to the side of those statistics, you'll also see that Konqueror is very "green" right now. That's cheating a bit, since I'm including past bug days here. If you use the default query of 7 days, we aren't as green as I'd like to be. That's why you should come join us now, though. ;)

Oh, and can I mention that our sysadmin team is wonderful? They make bugzilla go!

So I should probably say something about it: We're doing another BugDay this weekend to see how many of the old Konqueror bugs (unsorted "general") we can finish off. Whoever FiNeX* is, he's been tearing through bugs lately, but I don't think he'll have closed everything by then, so come join in and get your name in the top 20 of the daily Bugzilla stats!

But wait, there's more! The following week we're doing a Krush day on the kdepim apps, so come help us find bugs in them! You really need a copy of trunk for this, which you can get by following the instructions on techbase. If you have problems, you can drop by #kde-devel for help, and then walk over to #kde-bugs to join us.

#kde-bugs:
We tend to be more active in Europe and PST evenings. Feel free to drop by anytime and we'll point you to the documentation and give you a feel for what you're doing. If you're trained ahead of time, I can do more bugs. :D

So I'm looking at our page for this weekend, and I see that four people have already started. You can be one of them!

* p.s. If you've done a BugDay before, or are one of the ongoing triagers, or want to join, can you give me a name I can use in our publicity stuffs? I'm going to feel very silly crediting something like c00lchix2....

** p.p.s Entirely unrelated, and I think this only applies to Americans, but if you used a credit card or debit card internationally in the past decade or so, there's a class action lawsuit which you have 17 days to join. At the very least, you get $25. Something about them overcharging you.

This Sunday we're having yet another BugDay, and are going to see how many of the "Konqueror - general" bugs we can get through. I say Sunday, but as usual, you can start now and stop whenever. Also, we still have a few bugs from earlier that need special setups like a yahoo account or something. If you can replicate it and make a testcase, that would be great! Join #kde-bugs to get more directions.

Coming up: Two weeks after that, we're doing a complete switch to something else...
To find out what top secret thing, come help us organize! Join the mailing list (bugsquad) or the irc channel (#kde-bugs)!

And hey, check out all the new names on the commit-digest! We are rockin' the stats! Have we made a difference? See for yourself! Konqueror has moved from being 559 in the red a year ago, to being solidly in the green the past several weeks. Let's finish up the old stuff in it!

Developers: Your app may be next! But we need your help! We need application-specific documentation. We need to know how heavily your app has been triaged in the past, and if old bugs are likely to still be valid or not. Is there anything special to know? Are you a lurker in your favorite app's irc channel? If you've been reading and memorizing an applications general issues, we want you to join us!

BTW, your memory hasn't failed you, I'm new: Thanks Clee, for adding me on!
Oh? And who am I? Well, obviously I do BugSquad. I do a few other things, one of which you'll find out RSN. :)

http://www.pcbsdbabe.com/ for pics of our booth (its the one that is all blue) at LugRadio Live, and a tale of how we drunk the BSDers under the table. Hint: that red drink in front of me is missing a certain ingredient.

Plus BugDay2 is this weekend, cool! Join in! #kde-bugs! (Is anyone in KDE-world reading this, even if it isn't on planet?)

So I helped organize the first Bug Triage Day in a while, and what do you know, but with my one day or so of newly having bugzilla permissions, I make the commit digest!
See: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-03-30/

True, not very many, but still kinda cool, and rather unexpected.

Anyway, other Bug Triage days will follow, and most importantly we've got some solid techbase docs and a live #kde-bugs irc channel again. We even have a new mailing list!

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Meanwhile, "LugRadio Live USA 2008" is this weekend in San Francisco at the Metreon. How you have an exhibit there, I don't know. And having never been to a LugRadio Live ElseWhere, I have no clue what it will be like. But KDE is having a booth there, so contact me if you want to help out, or just drop by! We'll have spiffy stuff that didn't get to the release party in time!

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I will leave you with this lovely picture and quote:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Amazon-variant-sex-position.jpg
"At the end of the day, the geek guy is still a guy." "The geek gal just wants the laptop?"

I just need to pick up some other hardware to go with it... It might even have more than 1G RAM! I think only 2G, though. Running valgrind will be sad... I will never replicate that tab bug. :P

In other perverse news, I tried learning javascript by studying a facebook application's source.** Instead I found a nice list of all my friend's birthdays. Now what should I do with this? I immediately started running statistical analysis on it! So I found that KDE developers think nothing of giving out their birthdays, yet Berkeley undergrads are more cautious. Ex-Gnome people are mixed. Now the question is why? And how do I get data for current Gnome devs? Obviously I should write a facebook app and ask for it! I bet a silly quiz would work... Everyone adds those! I should analyze my precipitation data first, though.


** This being a failure, I think I'll stick to fredrikh's demos. Which are top secret, as he won't blog about them.

How am I supposed to add people I know to twitter when I do not have a useful account on any of the usual places and I don't want to enter a list of email addresses (which it sounds like it will immediately invites to)? It wants to go through my "contact list". Well, great, I'm not sure what that would be, and while I do have a gmail account, I use it for a super-high traffic list that I usually ignore. Do they really expect you to only have an email account with one of 6 companies? WTF?

So I go to see just what gmail counts as my "contacts". Apparently anyone I've actually sent email to. So I have <7, and most of them are myself. (I forward :)

Well, the only person I know who is on twitter offhand is Aaron, so it's easy enough to add him to my contacts, and *then* let twitter load that. But this is really really silly.

Does anyone else use twitter I wonder?

And why do I want to you might ask? Because I like getting text messages. *g* And nobody in the States actually uses SMS, so sad. So if you like, add me. Same nick. Hmm. Guess I should offload my old SMS.

ratatok's winner in the lolcat Burma Shave contest.

In other news, I *finally* got to see steluch and enf's new house. I even got to attack the wallpaper in it!

And best of all, my brother decided to get a new machine and so I get one of the old ones with a few niceties. It'll be a little light on clockspeed, but good for a testbed. *g* And maybe I can actually stand to look at photos on it.

I did part of my standard book cruise through the Mission last night, and grabbed another Strugatsky. At Adobe Books, I found out that Allan Milkerit, who owned one of the stores in the Last Paint building, passed away on June 24, 2007. Has it really been that long since I've been by there? Apparently.

At Borderlands Books, I found the clerk (the one I don't know!) had lived in the same apartment as Allan. Or maybe that was the guy who had wandered in. At any rate, I found myself with two people who actually knew him and found out that he'd had some health issues and didn't go see a doctor and ended up dying of a heart attack. Which is very sad, because he was the nicest rare book dealer I knew, and also one of my favourite people to deal with when at Don's.

So what's happening with the space? A Bolerium page says that "LibrosLatinos is busily moving thousands of books on Latin America, Spain and Portugal down the hall into the old Allan Milkerit space." I couldn't find any mention of what happened to his old stock, but I imagine it went to pay off estate bills. When I'd last talked to him, he said business had picked up, but I'm not sure if that was picked up in terms of "profit" or "I can mostly pay the bills now". Alas, the fate of all independent bookstores these days.

The public library dedicated their booksale to him.

In pace requiescat

It was awesome and there is scary karaoke of me to possibly prove it. gg: karaoke KDE 4.0 release

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Flash got fixed for the 4.0.1 release, whee!

This conference is crazy. Technical talks like mad, with a coffee break between them. At first I was wondering why bother, but really, you need it to keep your focus. Which is even harder to do when sessions start at 7:30am!!!!

Tommorrow I fly out and meet up with a mysterious Kalle person from iirc Sweden, who, as it happens, is on my flight! I fly into OAK, and then we both go directly to Googleworld (kinda like Disneyworld?) for the KDE 4.0 release party (I'd include the url, but you can search for it ;).

It should be really interesting because I'll meet up with a bunch of people that I've never met before and several I have. I've started doing bug reports, and it looks like I might get conned into doing a little documentation. I have to say that bug reports are a really good way to learn various names of things... Anyway, we'll see what happens. Hopefully greeng(?) remembers to bring his wireless card so I have net access! If you're in the area, btw, you are welcome to drop by. It isn't a closed thing afaikt.

And how much mathematical physics do you think I can learn on my own? And how quickly? And wow, the model details are kinda interesting, at least the physics stuffs. Ok, enough babble.