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====== The New York City / Bay Area 2012 Ports and Docs Bugfest ======
==== Saturday July 28 , 2012 and on efnet on #nycbug ====

===== Background =====
NYC*BUG and BAFUG are hosting two concurrent Ports and Docs Bug busting sessions on July 28th from 2pm to 6pm EDT /  11am - 3pm PDT. and On efnet on #nycbug .

==== We're hoping to focus on three areas: ====
  * [[Bugathons/PRsWithPatches|PRs with patches]]
  * Docs updating and validation
  * Help for creating new ports.

===== Locations =====
  * Suspenders , 111 Broadway NYC, NY .
  * iXsystems, 2490 Kruse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131  [[http://goo.gl/maps/aqqT]]

===== Hardware =====
A limited amount of hardware can be made available upon request . Please email Mark Saad mark.saad@longcount.org Before Thursday the 26th. This would be use for testing the upcoming 9.1-RELEASE installer .

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

We'll convene on the IRC channel starting Saturday July 28th and start to look through PRs, review docs and examples and create a list of work for the day.
A good starting place would be freebsd-bugs@ or any known issues you may be aware of that do not yet have a pr.

===== Volunteers =====

For those helping out who are not committers, the best plan is to pick an area that you are familiar with and find a pr and work on testing and validating it .  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 behavior 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.

[[/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.

===== 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 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 made 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.