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| Participants are most likely to be around between 9AM to 3PM according to their local time. | |
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| It's always a good time for a push at closing some Python bugs and patches. | Join us on IRC for an effort at closing some Python bugs and patches. |
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| or learn how to examine patches; join us on IRC! Participants are most likely to be around between 9AM to 3PM according to their local time. |
or learn how to submit and examine patches. |
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| Suggestions for bugs to tackle, as well as the list of bugs currently being worked on, are recorded in this Wiki on the PythonBugDayStatus page. |
Suggestions for bugs to tackle are recorded in this Wiki on the PythonBugDayStatus page. PEP PEP:0003, "Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports", describes the life cycle and how bugs should be processed by the developers. |
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| The goal of the bug day is to process bug reports in [http://bugs.python.org/ the Python bug tracker], working on fixing and closing issues. | The goal of the bug day is to process bug reports in [http://bugs.python.org/ the Python bug tracker], trying to fix and close issues. |
Next Bug Day: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Time: all day. Participants are most likely to be around between 9AM to 3PM according to their local time.
Join us on IRC for an effort at closing some Python bugs and patches. Get quick feedback on your patches and bugfixes, or learn how to submit and examine patches.
Preparatory Tasks
- Need to set up log of python-dev channel
- Send announcements (python-announce, python-dev, PSF weblog, personal web log. python-list?)
Location
Participants will meet in the #python-dev IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. To learn more about IRC and to find links to IRC clients for various platforms, see http://www.irchelp.org.
Links
Suggestions for bugs to tackle are recorded in this Wiki on the PythonBugDayStatus page.
PEP 0003, "Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports", describes the life cycle and how bugs should be processed by the developers.
Procedures
The goal of the bug day is to process bug reports in [http://bugs.python.org/ the Python bug tracker], trying to fix and close issues. Bugs should be processed in the fashion described by PEP 0003.
What to do:
Grab a copy of the Python 2.6 SVN tree. See [http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#subversion-svn the development FAQ] for instructions. If anonymous access isn't working, you can download a snapshot from [http://svn.python.org/snapshots/ the daily snapshot directory].
If you have a problem that isn't in the bug tracker, announce it to the IRC channel, and if it's more than five minutes' work, create a bug report for it. See the [http://docs.python.org/dev/bugs.html bug reporting instructions] to learn how to write bug reports.
- When you choose a bug to work on, announce it to the IRC channel. (e.g. "I'm working on #123456.")
- Consider providing a patch that fixes the problem, or at least a simple test case that demonstrates the bug. Does the bug appear to be gone in the Python 2.6 trunk, but not the 2.5 maintenance branch? Report that, too.
- If someone else has supplied a fix, see if this fix works for you, and add your results to the bug.
- Read the text of proposed patches and assess them for correctness and code quality. This is usually the most time-consuming step in the bug fixing process, so reading patches is very useful.
- If there's a working fix, feel free to add a note asking for the fix to go into SVN. The bug tracker has a lot of items in it, and it's easy for bugs to be overlooked.
Feature requests can be added to the text of PEP 0042 or classified as type 'rfe' (Request for Enhancement) in the bug tracker.
Questions?
If you have questions about the bug day, please add them to this section.
Previous bug days
Date |
Accomplishments |
2004-06-05 |
44 bugs |
2004-07-10 |
18 bugs, 21 patches |
2004-08-07 |
19 bugs, 12 patches |
2004-11-07 |
12 bugs, 10 patches |
2005-06-25 |
10 bugs, 7 patches |
2005-12-04 |
11 bugs+patches |
2006-03-31 |
19 bugs, 9 patches |
2008-01-19 |
37 bugs+patches |
Bug days for other projects
The [http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays Zope bug day] has a good description of what to do, though the details of the bug tracker are specific to the Zope project.
The GNOME community holds regular Bug Days; the procedures are described in [http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/triage/faq.html their FAQ].