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Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Bug Day wiki!!

Join us on IRC in #bugday every other Tuesday from 8:00am to 2:00pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)to discuss and work on Bugzilla bug topics and get help from the Mozilla QA team.

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 focus on particular areas in Bugzilla. The exact area or topic for Bug Day will vary each event. But the general idea is to work through some sort of bug list as a team.

Next Bug Day

May 4th, 2010 - 3.6.x UNCONFIRMED triage

For more information go to the bug day event here

Some of us hang around before or after sessions, so you may find someone in #bugday outside of the scheduled time, and if not, you can always find people in #qa that would be willing to help with Bug Day topic tasks.

Future Bug Days

Please find future topics on the QMO events calendar

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. Regular updates will be posted for changing Bug Day topics
• Read the Mozilla QA blog

FAQ

Where do I start? Each Bug Day topic will have a specific focus. Instruction on what needs to be done should be included in the QMO Bug Day Event post:

The following documentation is good to become familiar with for anyone trying to work in Bugzilla projects:

• Read Bug Writing Guidelines to learn how to write effective bug reports that lead to bug fixes.

Note: If you don't have the necessary rights to make a change to a bug, add a comment to the bug detailing what should be changed and why. You can also make this known in the #bugday channel, and one of the moderators or an experienced volunteer will assist you.

What to do next?

• 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.

Community Representatives

Bug days are led by members of Mozilla's QA staff. We are always willing to guide and teach communities members who are willing to take on more responsibility. If you want to host or moderate a Bug Day, Please let us know. For contributors planning and hosting Bug Days please see the Bug Day Planner