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.

Topic of the Day

Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, 2007

• 2nd of 3 sessions - Triage Firefox Trunk Unconfirmed bugs in the components listed before General.
  • Use this query for unconfirmed bugs in components Bookmarks through Form Manager
  • Confirm or WFM these bugs
  • If confirmed, move them out of the General category and into the appropriate component.

• 3 session schedule to triage Firefox trunk unconfirmed bugs:
  • Session 1) (Jan. 16th) We'll use this Bugzilla Search query of general trunk unconfirmed bugs
  • Session 2) (Jan. 23rd) We'll work on this query for unconfirmed bugs in components Bookmarks through Form Manager.
  • Session 3) (Jan. 30th) We'll complete the sweep by working on this query for unconfirmed bugs in components Help Documentation through View Source

Schedule

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/Australia session: 8pm-10pm in Tokyo, Japan gmt+9
• Europe/Africa session: 8pm-10pm in Paris, France gmt+1
• Americas session: 9pm-11pm in N.Y., NY. gmt-5, 6pm-8pm in San Francisco, CA. gmt-8

Review of last week

• Asia Session: 8 vistors, 3 active - 9 bugs triaged
• Euro Session: 13 visitors, 5 active - 9 bugs triaged
• Am Session: 12 visitors, 3 active - 2 bugs triaged (list cherry picked by first two sessions)

Community Representatives

We'd like to recruit a few individuals from the community to organize and run Bug Days. tracy will be on vacation all of February.

• Asian/Australian Session :
  • Still in need of a volunteer.
  • Current moderator - Tomcat and tracy - (tracy may have good enough access to host the Asian session while he is in Asia his entire vacation).
• European/African Session :
  • Current moderator - Tomcat
• Americas Session :
  • Catriona and Jackie have volunteered to share this during tracy's vacation.
  • Current Moderator - tracy

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

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
  • Go to your favorite IRC client
    • Windows clients
    • MacOS clients
    • Linux clients
  • Connect to irc.mozilla.org and "/join #bugday"
  • 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 Firefox Trunk builds, the next version of Firefox in development.