From OpenNMS

Bug Day is an event started by the Mozilla folks, and is best described by them:

Bug Day is an informal collaborative bug hunting effort and an opportunity to become comfortable with OpenNMS and Bugzilla, opennms.org's bug reporting tool.

How To Join In

Just join #opennms on irc.freenode.net and introduce yourself. For details on finding an IRC client, see the Wikipedia article comparing IRC clients.

How You Can Help

1. Find an interesting bug:
   • open bugs
   • bugs that block the next stable release
2. Install the latest OpenNMS (preferably a snapshot build)
3. verify the bug is still valid (that the problem can be reproduced)

If you're enterprising, whip out Eclipse (or your editor of choice) and try to fix it!

You don't have to be a coder to help out, verifying and testing bugs is a huge deal. You can also help with documentation, or helping other folks get up-and-running so they can test too!

Also note, that all day during bug day, the RPM snapshots will be continually built, so feel free to do a yum update throughout the day when it's time to verify bugs against the latest code.

Tarus's Original Announcement

I've been very happy to see a lot of activity on the lists and in  
bugzilla recently. OpenNMS is all about the community, and nothing  
pleases me more than to see lots of new people with a sense of  
ownership toward the project.

With that in mind, we've decided to have a "bugfest" to clean up as  
many bugs as possible for the 1.3.10 release. Those of you watching  
the commit notices have seen quite a number of them fixed  
over the last couple of weeks, and we figured that if we all got  
together for a day we could knock the rest of them out.

Here's how this works:

1) We will be coordinating this via the #opennms IRC channel on  
freenode. For those of you who don't usually use IRC or never have, it  
is just a way to create a chat room where a group of people can talk.  
The IRC wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC) is a good  
place to start, and there is even a decent comparison of IRC clients
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients).

When you get your software installed, you will have to connect to a  
server. In our case it will be "irc.freenode.net". Then you will want  
to join the "#opennms" channel (the # sign is important, so don't  
leave it off). Most clients with a command line use the "/" symbol to  
indicate an action, so "/join #opennms" will most likely get you to  
the right place.

You may also be asked to choose a nickname (or "nick"). Mine is  
Sortova. The channel is always active, so feel free to test it out  
before the 2nd.

2) Everyone is welcome, even if you don't write code. We will be  
generating a number of snapshots that day, and help with testing (both  
the installation and functionality) is just as important as code  
changes. This would also be a good time to brush up on your wiki  
syntax skills as I'm sure we could always use some help with the  
documentation.

3) The focus will be on the 1.3.10 tracking bug:

http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2108

although any bug is fair game. The goal is to release 1.3.10 the week  
of the 4th.

I look forward to seeing some old friends and some new faces. I'll  
probably start around 8am to 9am Eastern US time, but there will be  
people on the channel all day. No one has to stay the whole time, of  
course, so if you can only spend an hour or two that's cool.