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Next Python Bug Day: November 20th and 21st

Time: all weekend

Join us 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.

Participating Online

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 the bug tracker, you can perform various searches to look for candidate issues:

Procedures

The goal of the bug day is to process bug reports in the Python bug tracker, trying to fix and close issues.

At PyCon 2008, Brett Cannon provided a slideshow educating new contributors to the Python code.

What to do:

For later committing

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

2008-02-23

48 bugs+patches

2008-05-10 & 11

34 bugs+patches

2009-04-25

39 bugs

Bug days for other projects

The 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 their FAQ.

Preparatory Tasks

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