International Ticket-closing day

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-1-17 00:53 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2013-01-15 10:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 03:14, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:
>>
>>> I was poking around on Trac tying to find an excuse for not studying and found out that there are 1091 tickets open but older than a year[1]. So, what about choosing a date and have a big meetup on IRC and close some tickets? :)
>>
>> No need to frustrate everyone all at once. :) People should feel free to handle any tickets at any time that's convenient for them.
> 
> I know other open source projects are holding such Bug Days and they are
> meant for triaging bugs, for example re-producing bugs and nailing down
> the cause. However, I never participated in such a meeting, so maybe
> someone else can share their experience with such an event?

Certainly setting a date can help people make definite plans to commit
some time to the project, even though there's no pressure to
participate. Usually these kinds of events involve a physical meeting
though, to make the developers highly available to each other, and to
minimise distractions.

I haven't heard about projects doing something similar over IRC. Is
anyone familiar with one, and if so, how successful was it?

- Josh