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## Bug Day for Translate Toolkit 0.8

Note that in this exercise, anybody who uses the toolkit is welcome, not just coders - there is lots that you can do to help!

The secret code name for this bug day is Long walk to Freedom

### Plans

- The bug day is Thursday 2nd of February 2006
- We will pretend to be time zone agnostic, so some people’s days won’t overlap...
- Any bug gathering before the day will also be useful as it means the coder types can start work straight away.
- the code to use is in CVS under the `translate-toolkit-0-8-branch` branch. It would help if people have access to CVS so they can quickly test fixes, but if that’s too difficult we can try release snapshots as the day progresses.
- We will all gather in the #pootle IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
- Bugs should be filed at bugs.wordforge.org under “Translate Toolkit”
- It would be helpful if people could install the test framework: follow the testing instructions

#### Procedure

- a bug is filed
- if possible, a unit test is coded to reproduce what is causing that bug at the lower level
- if it is determined that this should be fixed for 0.8, a milestone will be test
- developers will feverishly try to fix all bugs set for 0.8, with tests
- IRC will be useful for communicating during all of this.
- There’s a bugdaytest script in src/tools/ which will cvs up, run tests, and upload them to http://translate.sourceforge.net/bugdays/20060202/

#### Participants

- David Fraser
- Dwayne Bailey
- Friedel Wolff
- Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla

### Results

A great leap forward! See the summary on David's blog.

### Links

The original announcement Summary on David's blog

Latest release: translate-toolkit-0.8rc6