This page details rough plans for Bugathon #5, which took place between 20-22nd June, 2008 on #freebsd-bugbusters on efnet.

===== Background =====

Unlike some past bugathons, we've decided to set a particular focus for Bugathon #5: to try to evaluate and possibly commit as many PRs with patches as is possible.  Around 1300 PRs contain patches, and a significant number of these may well be committable as-is.

Since the last bugathon, [[/MarkLinimon|MarkLinimon]] has put a huge amount of work into the [[/BugBusting]] and [[BugBusting/Resources]] wiki pages, and the pages linked from them.  There is now a large quantity of information available for bugbusters on the [[BugBusting/Resources]] page for anyone interested in helping out.

===== Plan of action =====

We'll convene on the IRC channel starting Friday 20th June, and start to look through PRs.  A list of PRs tagged as containing patches is posted weekly to freebsd-bugs@, and is also available as [[http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_patch.html|an interactive version]].

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 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.

[[/GavinAtkinson|GavinAtkinson]] has also compiled a list of PRs requiring MFC to 6.x.  These are PRs that have sat in HEAD and RELENG_7 for at least 5-6 months, but have not been merged to 6.x.  Have a look, see if any are yours, or that you are interested in taking.  If you own some of them but will have no ability to test on RELENG_6, it may be worth adding them to the recommended list for somebody else to MFC.

For those with freefall access, a list of unallocated PRs containing patches can be generated with:
''%%query-pr -q -x -t '\[patch\]' -r freebsd-%%''
Similarly, to list (e.g.) non-ports PRs, use:
''%%query-pr -q -x -t '\[patch\]' -r freebsd- | awk '$3 !~ /ports/ { print }'%%''

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.

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