[Adium-devl] Shawn's Bug Day Proposal

[Jordan Schelew]

	Sorry to create a new thread about this, but I deleted the old one  
accidentally! I was rather surprised to see nobody flat out turn down  
the request and I happen to believe it to be a good idea, not so much  
as to enforce development by the current team, but more so to  
encourage outside development support.

	People have a tendency to often forget or ignore deadlines, but  many  
people also heavily rely on them. In this case, by setting a date, it  
means those coders that do work well based on meetings or deadlines or  
just schedules in general might take a closer look at Adium and help  
by submitting patches on a more regular basis. To make this work, it  
wouldn't necessarily require that all current developers work on  
fixing bugs like a madman for a single day (as we all know everyone  
here is very busy with other things in their lives... especially the  
good ol' day job), but it would be nice to have a few who are very  
familiar with the internal workings of Adium there to help push people  
in the right direction for where they might start on a particular bug  
fix or enhancement.

	On top of a couple devs in attendance (which happens to be true on  
IRC most of the time anyway, but thought I'd mention it just to be  
thorough) the only other thing that would be handy for making this  
work would be the support of the primary people that are also acting  
as PR for Adium. Evan, Colin, Eric, and Chris most particularly seem  
to have regular blog posts and interaction with Adium fans. By helping  
out with blog posts and Digg submissions, we just *might* be able to  
entice a few people out of the thousands that read these things to not  
just stop by and take a peek (of which a good hundred or so must have  
some familiarity with coding) but also push them towards fixing a few  
bugs.

	I really can't see how this is not worth a shot, and would like to  
hear what others have to say about it. Shawn is looking to set a first  
day for this to go live, but I think we should have the word put out  
before it goes ahead since it's going to be fairly useless if nobody  
hears about it...

So... comments? Suggestions on a first day?

Jordan