Here’s a great chance to get involved with openSUSE — no development experience required. We’re having a bug smash on Friday from 09:00 to 18:00 UTC in #openSUSE-Factory on Freenode.

The announcement is over on news.opensuse.org, and we’ve sent it to the announce list as well — but we could use more help in spreading the word! Please send the info to anyone who might be interested in joining in.

This is the first bug smash event we’ve done in a while, but I hope to see this become a regular event. This is a great way for contributors to help openSUSE devs focus on real issues rather than wading through a lot of duplicate or defunct bugs in Bugzilla.

This will help close irrelevant bugs, and draw more attention to relevant bugs that still exist.

I’d like to thank everybody who’s helped get this organized so far: Christoph Thiel, JP Rosevear, Stanislav Visnovsky, Duncan Mac-Vicar, Jiri Srain, and Andreas Jaeger. (I hope I didn’t miss anyone!)

If you have additional input on what we can do to help with bug triaging, please feel free to leave a comment. And remember — you can do this any time, bug smashing is not limited to bug smashing days!

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