Drupal core announcements: Announcing the Bug-Smash community initiative!

Happy to announce we're attempting to kick off a new community initiative primarily focused on fixing and closing bugs.

We're hoping to

reduce the total amount of open core bugs
reduce the average age of open bugs
increase the number of closed bugs
mentor those looking to get move involved in contributing to core
give community members from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere the chance to participate in a core initiative in their local time zone.

We need you!

Resolving core bugs requires a wide range of skills - we're looking for volunteers to join us who can help with one or more of the following tasks:

Triaging and classifying bugs
Writing good bug reports, with steps to reproduce
Writing patches to resolve the bug
Writing automated test-cases to confirm the bug, and that it is resolved
Reviewing patches, through the lens of each of the core gates e.g. technical, accessibility, performance, backwards-compatibility, documentation, internationalization and usability.
Communicating with sub-system experts in order to gain sign off on non trivial changes
Writing documentation as required
Manual testing of the patch
Communicating any changes via blog posts, change records, release note snippets etc.
Coordination and management

If you are are looking to get involved - come join us on Slack in the #bugsmash channel.

We will meet asynchronously in the #bugsmash slack channel fortnightly on a Tuesday at 0400 UTC which maps to the following times: