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   or classified as type 'rfe' (Request for Enhancement) in the bug tracker.    or classified as type 'feature request' (Request for Enhancement) in the bug tracker.

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.

How are we doing? Try a [http://bugs.python.org/issue?%40search_text=&title=&%40columns=title&id=&%40columns=id&creation=&creator=&activity=2008-02-23&%40columns=activity&%40sort=activity&actor=&nosy=&type=&components=&versions=&severity=&dependencies=&assignee=&keywords=&priority=&%40group=priority&status=2&%40columns=status&resolution=&%40pagesize=50&%40startwith=0&%40queryname=&%40old-queryname=&%40action=search Roundup search for bugs closed during the bug day].

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.

Finding Bugs

Using [http://bugs.python.org the bug tracker], you can perform various searches to look for candidate issues:

There are various things MissingFromDocumentation; these tasks mostly require writing and editing, not programming.

The [http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/StudentPage task list for GHOP] contains many small projects of reasonable difficulty.

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, "Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports".

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.") This avoids accidentally duplicating work.
  • Consider providing a patch that fixes the problem, or at least a simple test case that demonstrates the bug. Please see the [http://www.python.org/dev/patches/ patch submission guidelines] before submitting a patch.

  • 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 'feature request' (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].

Preparatory Tasks

  • Need to set up log of python-dev channel
  • Send announcements (python-announce, python-dev, PSF weblog, personal web log. python-list?)

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