Bughuntday: yes, you can!
Over a hunderd bugs were squashed leading up to the release of Zend Framework 1.9.3.
What is Bughuntday ?
Bughuntday is actually a term to indicate that on a specific day (or days), lots of developers are focussing their attention to fix bugs, often reported by users in a bug tracking tool (like Jira, Mantis or Bugzilla).
Since lots of users have submitted issues and only a few developers have time to investigate them, extra help is always welcome to clear a backlog of reported issues.
So, each year a "Bughuntday" is scheduled to have many developers fix issues in a relative short timeframe.
You can help !
Fixing bugs for Zend Framework is a very good way to learn best coding practices or parts of the framework you're not familiar with.
Go over to the Zend Framework Issue Tracker and look for bugs that are still open.
If you already signed the Zend CLA, you're good to go. If you haven't done this, now is a good time to do so.
Get the latest revision from http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk/, which includes the library, unit tests, external libraries and documentation.
In case of emergency
If you're stuck, or you have created a patch to fix an issue, head over to #zftalk.dev on IRC (freenode) where you can ask for help.
The Zend Framework Bughuntday is held each third Thursday and Friday of the month and each month prizes are given to the top 3 fixers.
If your company uses Zend Framework, see if you cannot make it a company thing. The quality improvement of Zend Framework will be a great benefit for your company as well.
It will be nice to have more and more developers participate in the bug hut events. Especially corporates.
ReplyDeleteWell... I agree and honestly would like to take part in it one day.
ReplyDeleteI`ve been using ZF for some time and really like it. I do know some components quite well and I guess I could help in some issues. However I`ve never used unit testing. Not just Zend_Test component. The whole PHPUnit thing is a big mistery for me. I`ve read that reported issues should contain tests as well. So here is a problem for me.
Don`t know if the whole testing is a hard thing to understand but to be honest I`ve got too much work and in the same time I`m too lazy to learn PHPUnit. (or maybe haven`t fount good tut)
I`d like to take part in BugHunt. So maybe it would be cool to learn people (like me, lazy bastards who want to help in solving issues but got some lacks in testing knowledge) how they can help? Blog post showing how to solve one issue on jira (I`ve never work with this tool).
Or maybe there is something (tutorials or blog posts) which I missed?
Thanks :)
@sudheer.s
ReplyDeleteYes, more corporate involvement would be much appreciated, but in my experience I see that developers within companies do want to participate, but don't get the time from management, simply because management has no clue what open-source is all about.
@Zielun
ReplyDeletePHP Unit testing is not really hard to learn, and once you get the hang of it, you are wondering how you could ever do without it.
This said, maybe my Introduction to unit testing with phpunit might help you get started.
If you're still in doubts, see me on irc (freenode) in channel #phpunit or #zftalk and we'll talk about it.
As of this last event, BugHunt days are no longer a yearly event for Zend Framework team, but a monthly recurring event. See also Matthew's announcement: http://www.nabble.com/Announcement:-Monthly-Bug-Hunt-Days-td25439447.html
ReplyDeleteYes, I can help but..
ReplyDeleteI sent my CLA on Sep 10 and I'm still expecting here rolling my thumbs... :)
@Giorgio
ReplyDeleteIf you have IRC, jump to #zftalk and #zftalk.dev (on freenode) to see if you can find someone from Zend that might speed things up for you.
I know the whole CLA process takes lots of time, but it's an overhead needed to maintain the new-bsd license.
I think someone needs to be filtering the reported bugs, I found one that appeared to be an easy fix, when I reviewed the code it looked like it had already been fixed.
ReplyDeleteI found myself stuck wondering if this guy had any idea what he was doing and if this was even a bug.
I downloaded 130MB of trunk so I could have the tests, looked through a bunch of bugs to see which ones I could help with (I couldn't find a "list all bugs" option).
In the end I gave up and got back to work that gets me paid.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteFiltering reported bugs is also part of the whole Bughuntday experience. If you come across bugs that are not really bugs, you can modify it's status accordingly. Not every bug reporter has the required skill set to report bugs, but that's all part of (software) development. You can make an application fool-proof, just to discover that there are only worse fools"
There's no such thing as list all bugs, but you can select open issues (topics where users had an issue using the framework) and you can even filter on specific components, so in my opinion you already have the tools to get you started.
I'm sorry that you didn't had the excited experience we had with it, but I understand that it can be challenging sometimes.
Good luck and maybe 'till next time.