# Bug Day/2005

Bug Squashing Day is a day dedicated to raising awareness about our overflowing bugtracker. The goal of the day is to get the community involved in trying to help us eliminate as many bugs as possible. This page is to answer some questions about Bug Squashing Day, and to provide you with the information you need to know in order to help rid us of some of these pesky critters.

## When?

Bug Squshing Day takes place during the first Sunday of every month. There was once a question as to what time exactly it starts on Sunday, and most people agreed that it doesn't really matter. So if it's Sunday where you are...it's Bug Squashing Day.

## Where?

Well the bugs themselves are hiding at https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=1 .
Discussion about the bugs should be taking place on IRC in the #archlinux-bugs channel (on freenode). We will try to man the channel with at least one developer at all times during bug squashing day, so that bugs can be fixed and closed.

## Who?

Everyone is allowed, invited, and encouraged to participate in Bug Squashing Day.

## Why?

Well, we all love Arch, otherwise we would not be using it. Being so, we should all make an effort to keep it healthy. Helping us fix bugs is one way that you can do just that, and brings community participation into an otherwise monotonous and boring (and occasionally difficult) task. Also, having so many people focus on killing bugs all at once for a day helps empty out the tracker a bit, there are more and more bugs in there as Arch grows, so more resources are needed to handle them as well. The community is Arch's best and biggest resource, why not use it?

## See also

- Bug Day

Category:

- Events