Date: November 10, 2014

Time: Whatever time you work on Evergreen

The goal of Bug Squashing Day is to get as many patches created, tested, and pushed into master as possible.

To avoid duplication of effort, add yourself to the "Assigned To" field in the Launchpad bug before working on it. If you're new to contributing code, see our code contribution guidelines.

Need help deciding which bugs to fix?

• Find dusty bugs by looking at the oldest non-wishlist bugs on Launchpad
• Start with the bugs that are most important to users by looking at the non-wishlist bugs with the most heat
• Try these bitesize bugs

These Evergreen bugs with pullrequest tags are ready for testing. According to community guidelines, each piece of new code needs to be tested and get a sign-off from somebody else before it can be merged into Evergreen

Testing involves the following steps:

1. Loading the code on a non-production server. If you cannot load code or cannot work with a local tech person to load code, you can submit a request for a Bug Squashing Day Sandbox. Please note, the community will have a limited number of Sandboxes available and may not be able to accommodate all requests. Please submit your request by the end of the day Thursday, November 6 to give us time to get the Sandbox ready.
2. To avoid duplication of effort, add yourself to the "Assigned To" field in the Launchpad bug.
3. If your testing finds the bug fix works as expected and does not break other functionality:
   1. sign off on the code or add a comment to the Launchpad bug that says "I have tested this code and consent to signing off on it with my name, [enter name or consistent alias] and my email address, [enter email address]."
   2. Add a signedoff tag to the LP bug.
   3. Remove yourself from the "Assigned To" field.
4. If you discover problems when testing, add a comment to the Launchpad bug.

• Confirm new and triaged bugs. Anyone with a Launchpad account has the ability to mark a bug as confirmed.
• Check that old bugs are still relevant to newer releases.

Core committers only. Bugs with the signedoff tag have already undergone testing.