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Goals

The main goal of a Bug Hunting Day is to ensure that all the current bug reports are valid and the developers have enough information for fixing them. By the end of the day we should ensure that:

all the CONFIRMED bugs are reproducible on the current version of Krita by at least one person except the reporter and has enough information to be reproduced by a developer
the amount of UNCONFIRMED bugs drops to zero, that is we should triage all (optimistically) such bugs into CONFIRMED or NEEDSINFO
if noone can reproduce a bug, we keep it UNCONFIRMED or mark as NEEDSINFO.

Roles

There are two groups of people involved: Bug Hunters, Developers.

Bug Hunters

Bug hunters are the main force of a hunting day. They test the bugs on bugzilla and write the their verdict. If you would like to be a hunter, please follow these simple steps:

Make sure you've got a bugzilla account!
Join us on #krita on irc.freenode.net
Update your Krita to the latest testing version using Krita Lime or any other method you prefer. See this manual on getting the latest testing build.
Backup and reset your Krita configuration files and resources (see manual)
Read Bug Writing guidelines to see what info is usually needed in the bug report
Write or update your name and system configuration in this configurations spreadsheet. The info is needed so the developer would know how system/hardware influence the bug.
Walk through the bugs in this spreadsheet and try to reproduce them on your system. You can add comments, ask the reporter about more info and do whatever you think is needed with this bug. You can consult guidelines to see what additional info might be needed to reproduce/fix a bug.
Add a note to the bug to say that you have triaged the bug and whether you've been able to reproduce it or not.
If you managed to reproduce a bug on your computer: add all the information you have on how you reproduced the issue to the bugreport and write short status in the spreadsheet
Continue with the next bug!

Developers

The main task for developers is to coordinate the work of hunters and have the final word on changing the status of the bugs. The final status assignment can happen when the day is ended based on the contents of the spreadsheet.

The steps for the developers are quite boresome:

Mark triaged bugs that have enough informationguidelines) as CONFIRMED
If no hunters managed to reproduce a bug, mark it either as NEEDSINFO or WORKSFORME
Repeat until you have no UNCONFIRMED bugs left.

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 The main goal of a Bug Hunting Day is to ensure that all the current bug reports are valid and the developers have enough information for fixing them. By the end of the day we should ensure that:
 # all the CONFIRMED bugs are reproducible on the current version of Krita by at least one person except the reporter and has enough information to be reproduced by a developer
-# the amount of UNCONFIRMED bugs drops to zero, that is we should triage all (optimistically) such bugs into CONFIRMED or NEEDSINFO
+# the amount of UNCONFIRMED bugs drops to zero, that is we should [[Krita/Docs/Bug_Naming_Policy|triage]] all (optimistically) such bugs into CONFIRMED or NEEDSINFO
 # if noone can reproduce a bug, we keep it UNCONFIRMED or mark as NEEDSINFO.
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 Bug hunters are the main force of a hunting day. They test the bugs on bugzilla and write the their verdict. If you would like to be a hunter, please follow these simple steps:
-# Update your Krita to the latest testing version using Krita Lime or any other method you prefer. See this [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/MostRecentBuilds|manual] on getting the latest testing build.
+# Make sure you've got a bugzilla account!
-# Write or update your name and system configuration in this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mJ9SPclalprjVj9Lruu1ihrmjFAGeb6iiUjdjUqqAFI/edit#gid=0|spreadsheet]. The info is needed so the developer would know how system/hardware influence the bug.
+# Join us on [https://krita.org/irc/ #krita on irc.freenode.net]
-# Ask developers to assign you bugs in this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzHmhqqD6JUm_xs2MoGXbgcM4R6Ldt65y-mfP_sXdvI/edit#gid=0|spreadsheet]. The assigned bugs will be selected with a color and a comment.
+# Update your Krita to the latest testing version using Krita Lime or any other method you prefer. See this [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/MostRecentBuilds manual] on getting the latest testing build.
-# Walk through the bugs and try to reproduce them on your system. You can add comments, ask the reporter about more info and do whatever you think is needed with this bug. You can consult [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/BugWritingGuidelines|Bug Writing Guidelines] to see what additional info might be needed to reproduce/fix a bug.
+# Backup and reset your Krita configuration files and resources (see [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/ResetKritaConfiguration manual])
-# If you managed to reproduce a bug on your computer, you are lucky! Ensure the bugreport has enough information to reproduce it (consult the [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/BugWritingGuidelines|Guidelines] again). If you have something to add to the bugreport, do it! Remember: steps to reproduce are the most important part of most of the bugs. In the end add a comment to a corresponding cell in the spreadsheet, telling that you reproduced the bug.
+# Read [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/BugWritingGuidelines Bug Writing guidelines] to see what info is usually needed in the bug report
-# If you cannot reproduce it, that is not so bad. Just write so in a spreadsheet and move further.
+# Write or update your name and system configuration in this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mJ9SPclalprjVj9Lruu1ihrmjFAGeb6iiUjdjUqqAFI/edit#gid=0 configurations spreadsheet]. The info is needed so the developer would know how system/hardware influence the bug.
-# When you are done with your bugs, you can walk through the other non-reproducible bugs in the spreadsheet. Probably, you are lucky and on your system you can see the bugs that others cannot see! :)
+# Walk through the bugs in this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzHmhqqD6JUm_xs2MoGXbgcM4R6Ldt65y-mfP_sXdvI/edit#gid=0 spreadsheet]  and try to reproduce them on your system. You can add comments, ask the reporter about more info and do whatever you think is needed with this bug. You can consult [http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/BugWritingGuidelines guidelines] to see what additional info might be needed to reproduce/fix a bug.
+# Add a note to the bug to say that you have triaged the bug and whether you've been able to reproduce it or not.
+# If you managed to reproduce a bug on your computer: add all the information you have on how you reproduced the issue to the bugreport and write short status in the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzHmhqqD6JUm_xs2MoGXbgcM4R6Ldt65y-mfP_sXdvI/edit#gid=0 spreadsheet]
+# Continue with the next bug!
 === Developers ===
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 The main task for developers is to coordinate the work of hunters and have the final word on changing the status of the bugs. The final status assignment can happen when the day is ended based on the contents of the spreadsheet.
-The
+The steps for the developers are quite boresome:
+# Mark triaged bugs that have enough information[http://nonaynever.ru/kwiki/krita/BugWritingGuidelines guidelines]) as CONFIRMED
+# If no hunters managed to reproduce a bug, mark it either as NEEDSINFO or WORKSFORME
+# Repeat until you have no UNCONFIRMED bugs left.