On average, more than 1,800 Ubuntu bugs get reported every week, and the primary task on Ubuntu Bug Days is to "triage"--or classify--those reports so that they can be addressed as quickly as possible. Much the way emergency-room patients get triaged the minute they walk in the door so that they'll get what they need as soon as possible, so bug reports are subjected to a similar categorization process.

Individual Bug Days typically focus on triaging a specific category of bug reports, and tomorrow it's bugs for which no associated package was listed in the original report. So, those participating in tomorrow's Bug Day will be going through bug reports that don't list which software package is affected, and then adding that information. Once that's done, the bug reports can be forwarded on to the appropriate place for fixing.

Open Source's 'Killer App'

If you'd like to join the countless Ubuntu users around the globe who help to make the software better, all you need to do is visit the channel from your IRC client tomorrow, and you'll be shown where to start. If you want to read up ahead of time, the Ubuntu wiki pages offer helpful documentation about , tomorrow's , and the , which you may even want to consider joining at some point.

In the open source world, the community really is the software's best asset. Widespread participation is a big part of the reason why open source is so often , and than proprietary contenders are.