Mozilla is organising Bug Week (see <http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-10-23-003-20-NW- SW>). This is an event in which people who have been interested in hacking Mozilla, but felt they lacked the experience or the skill to do that, will be guided for a week by experienced Mozilla hackers through the steps of tracking down and fixing a bug, and committing that bug fix. This I write not to coax away the much needed GIMP developers to Mozilla.org for a week. :-) Rather, I like this idea of involving fringe developers and other interested parties. Is there such a thing we could do for GIMP development?* How would such a developer event look like and when would be the best time to organise it? *) I am not necessarily advocating that we do a bug week -- as the Mozilla press review points out, a large number of people who would normally not thought of themselves as 'developer material' apparently can be involved with the Mozilla bug week because the UI of the browser is coded in relatively 'easy' languages such as XML and JavaScript. -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
