Bug Triage Day December 27th-28th 2008

If you are a user of PEAR and have wanted to contribute to an open source project, here's a great opportunity.

We run a bug day every 3 weeks or so, on irc.efnet.org #pear & #pear-bugs across two days.

We basically try to improve the quality of incoming bugs - write test cases, make sure they are reproducible.We also try to boost overall code quality - unit tests, documentation and other improvements.

If you've got a package you use commonly, or bugs you filed some time ago that haven't been fixed; this is a good time to get involved.

Join us on December 27th-28th; or pop into irc.efnet.org #pear to say hello and ask questions.

See also http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=rslkppoio4rtq6nm7b6fptclfo%40group.calendar.google.com

1. Increase the unit test coverage for new issues, while decreasing the amount of failures.
2. Focus on resolving last bug triage's items (detailed below)

• Triage the latest 50 bugs
  • Write tests, seek feedback, improve the overall quality of reports.
  • See if we can knock off parse error related bugs :)
• Unit tests
  • Basically; look at test results and knock off low hanging fruit
    • Bug #14980 Unit tests fail & are slow (network)
    • DB include path snafu
    • Crypt_GPG - why do you dislike us :(
  • Try to get fixes committed so that the difference between CVS HEAD and the CI machine is less
  • Followup on Updating unit tests to PHPUnit3
  • Make sure that AllTests.php does not create any output, otherwise some tests for HTTP_Session will always fail (see test results)

• Mail_mimeDecode - have emailed, lots of bugs with patches in there.
  • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14634
  • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14129
  • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14772
  • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=12384
• Services_ExchangeRates needs some love!
  • Parse error, doconnor
  • Unit tests wanted!
    • Coverage is pretty high at the moment, only a few remaining key areas to target
    • Unfortunately, there's a BC break in here, so this will need to become 0.6
    • Check out the link for easy jobs!
• XML_Feed_Parser
  • lots of failures in the unit tests due to Atom 0.3 (http://pear.php.net/bugs/15322)
  • classify other test failure types, file bugs / fix them :)
• PEAR 1.8 - convert unit tests from xmlrpc to rest
• Packages that have the most open bug reports (http://pear.php.net/bugs/stats.php)
• Followup on PHP_Shell open bugs (doconnor)
• Followup on SOAP open bugs (doconnor)
• Give Text_Wiki some love - PHPCS, open bugs
• Followup
  • Bug #14969 Property groups not supported - test written test in CVS - doconnor
  • Bug #14988 Non-int parsing returns bogus result - cweiske
  • Bug #14871 E_NOTICE breaks test (captchanumeral.firstandsecond.phpt)
• Look at Image_Barcode - is it maintained? No; I've had no response from Marcelo about Numbers_Words or this package - doconnor
  • Look at open bugs
  • look for a new maintainer
• Get Image_JpegXmpReader into CVS (emailed on 6th, 27th)

• New releases which would be handy (look at, talk to maintainers, etc)
  • Image_Graph - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • DB_DataObject - troehr emailed on 27th
  • MDB2 - troehr emailed on 27th
  • HTTP_Upload - New release? Not so much; work is still in progress re translation, says cwenz
  • MDB2_Driver_mysql - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • Validate - troehr emailed on 27th
  • Image_Transform - troehr emailed on 27th, waiting for feedback from Philippe Jausions (appx Jan 1)
  • Image_Canvas - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • HTML_Page2 - troehr emailed on 27th
  • HTTP_WebDAV_Client - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • HTTP_WebDAV_Server - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • Net_SmartIRC - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • SQL_Parser - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer - troehr emailed on 27th, doconnor suitably scared
  • Mail_Mime - Emailed Dec 2nd / Dec 4th, and again today - avb and doconnor, release on Jan 4th if no feedback
    • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=11238 - reasonably high impact - do we push out a release sooner?

• XML_Feed_Parser tests got added (1500 unit tests)! - doconnor
• HTTP_Upload parse errors fixed - doconnor
• Net_SMPP parse errors fixed - doconnor
• Net_Whois bugfix release - doconnor
• Massive improvements to PEAR_PackageFileManager tests - dufuz
• Auth_Prefmanager tests now skip if not confiugred - doconnor
• HTML_Template_IT 1.3.0a1 released - doconnor
• Image_Color 1.0.3 released - doconnor
• MP3_Playlist - phpcs - doconnor
• Net_IPv6 got into the pear test suite - doconnor
• Get Services_Akismet2 up and running - gauthierm and dufuz