February '09 Bug Day coming up this Friday

February '09 Bug Day coming up This is a reminder for all interested developers and users to join us during Bug Day this Friday, February 27th. If you're an extension developer and never really got around the TYPO3 core, this is your chance to gain insight. If you always had an annoyance that drove you crazy, then let us know. During Bug Day we get together on IRC, find bugs and clean up our bugtracker to eventually spent more time on the really important bugs instead of wasting time by resolving duplicates and bugs that can't be confirmed or have been resolved already. So on February 27th join us again for another exciting Bug Day on IRC (<link irc: irc.freenode.net>#typo3-bugday on irc.freenode.net), where you can offer your help in fixing bugs and cleaning up the bugtracker. Core developers  will be around to assist interested developers and to coordinate the event. Join whenever you want, Bug Day is an all day event, however most developers will usually be around starting 9am CET. For more information also check out the pages dedicated to TYPO3's Bug Day: <link http: typo3.org development bug-fixing bug-day>typo3.org/development/bug-fixing/bug-day/. Results of January Bug Day Looking back at the January Bug Day we again made progress in establishing Bug Day as a regular TYPO3 community event. For the first time we had two agencies explicitly dedicating some of their developers to fixing bugs in TYPO3. Thanks a lot for their support to <link http: www.dkd.de>d.k.d and <link http: www.xnos.de>xnos. We are looking forward to more agencies to join the community effort to making TYPO3 better! Concerning individual Bug Day participants we were able to draw a small crowd of constantly at least 15 developers into the IRC channel, with peaks of more than 20 developers. Thanks a lot to Tobias Liebig, Georg Ringer, Julian Kleinhans, Mathias Schreiber, Thomas Hempel, Stefano Kowalke, Marcus Krause, Björn Paulsen, Peter Kühn, Christian Kuhn, Steffen Gebert, Dan Osipov, Benjamin Mack, and Ingo Renner. All in all the community work resulted in about 50 bugs having been tested and reviewed, and 16 commits to SVN. Some noteworthy bugs include the introduction of "alternative values for external URL and shortcut page types in translations" (<link http: bugs.typo3.org>#4911), the "replacement of while loops with foreach loops in TCEmain" (<link http: bugs.typo3.org>#10094) which should improve performance a bit, and also some nice "user interface improvement for the Template Object Browser" (<link http: bugs.typo3.org>#8446). Future TYPO3 Bug Days For upcoming TYPO3 Bug Days we are looking for companies to host the Bug Day. How does that work? A company decides to host a Bug Day, TYPO3 core developers will visit the company in their offices and the company will also let their developers work on TYPO3 bugs during Bug Day together with the core developers. In return the company gets a special mention in the according Bug Day announcements and reports. If you are interested to host a Bug Day as a company, please <link>contact me. For anyone else we also attached an ICS file you can import into your calendar to remind you of upcoming Bug Days. See you on Friday!