This page details rough plans for Bugathon #6, which will take place January 30th, 31st, and February 1st on #freebsd-bugbusters on efnet.

===== Background =====
Our focus this time will be to work on the backlog of network-related PRs.  These will include both the ~250 PRs [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?responsible=freebsd-net|assigned to freebsd-net]] as well as those assigned to others.  We hope to get some commits done, as well as further classification and analysis of PRs.  We will need both committers and non-committers.

===== Resources =====
  * the [[/BugBusting|BugBusting]] and [[BugBusting/Resources]] wiki pages and the pages linked from them
  * the [[BugBusting/Resources]] page
  * [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_patch.html|PRs with patches]]
  * [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_all_groups.html|kernel PRs grouped by subsystem]] (new page)
  * [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_group_network.device.html|network devices specific PRs]]
  * [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_group_network.stack.html|network stack and protocol specific PRs]]

===== Plan of action =====
We'll convene on the IRC channel starting Friday January 30th around 6pm CEST, and start to look through PRs.

For those wanting to help out, please add your details to [[BugBusting/Volunteers]], and join us on IRC on #freebsd-bugbusters on efnet.

==== Volunteers ====
For those helping out who are not committers, the best plan is to pick a PR with a patch in it, in an area that you are familiar with and/or can test, and try the patch.  If you've tested it and are confident that the patch is correct, submit a followup to the PR saying so, and if possible (and concise enough) submit an example of behaviour before and after.  Then, drop a message into the IRC channel.  Hopefully a committer will pick the PR up, verify that it looks sensible and commit it.  If not, the PR can be added to the [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recommended_prs.html|PRs recommended for committer evaluation by the bugbusting team]] by anyone with freefall access so that it doesn't get lost.

==== Committers ====
As mentioned above, non-committers will be both announcing PRs that are believed to be ready to commit in the IRC channel, but also these PRs will be added to the [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recommended_prs.html|list of recommended PRs]].  The source of this file is ''%%~linimon/public_html/recommended.prs%%'', which is world-writable, and closed PRs will automatically be removed from the generated HTML.

For those with direct GNATS access, a list of PRs assigned to freebsd-net and containing patches can be generated with:

  * ''%%query-pr -q -x -t '\[patch\]' -r freebsd-net%%''

There are currently about 50 of these.

It would be good if any commits originating from this bugathon bade mention of the fact in the commit message - this helps to get word out that it is occuring, and also shows people how effective bugathons can be.