Bug Triage Day November 15th, 16th 2008

November 15th, 16th in #pear-bugs on irc.efnet.org

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

Increase the unit test coverage for new issues, while decreasing the amount of failures.

cweiske, doconnor, ifeghali, quipo, gauthierm, & kguest (earlier in week)

• Triage the latest 50 bugs - doconnor, cweiske
  • Write tests, seek feedback, improve the overall quality of reports.
    • Bug #14969 Property groups not supported - test written
    • Bug #14988 Non-int parsing returns bogus result - cweiske, patch awaiting commit
• Unit tests
  • Basically; look at test results and knock off low hanging fruit
    • Bug #14980 Unit tests fail & are slow (network)
  • Try to get fixes committed so that the difference between CVS HEAD and the CI machine is less
    • Bug #14933 Validate_ptBR tests fail - doconnor, mailed today
    • Bug #14977 Tests should skip if version of PEAR is too old - doconnor, in discussion
    • Bug #14931 Validate unit test failure - doconnor, contacted Nov 5
    • Bug #14868 Validate_AT unit test failures - doconnor, contacted Nov 5
  • Followup on Updating unit tests to PHPUnit3
    • Numbers_Words - contacted developer to sort out if the package is maintained / not - doconnor
    • Console_GetArgs, contacting - doconnor
    • Auth - doconnor

• writing tests for MDB2_Schema bugs (particularly those with patches);
  • There's a whole new release of MDB2_Schema thanks to ifeghali
  • MDB2 got some attention from quipo too
• Packages that have the most open bug reports (http://pear.php.net/bugs/stats.php)
• Payment_DTA into CVS (doconnor consulting with lead) kguest ftw!
• Followup on PHP_Shell open bugs (doconnor)
• Followup on SOAP open bugs (doconnor)
• See if we can't get CI working (run unit tests overnight); look at overnight test results
• Give Text_Wiki some love - PHPCS, open bugs
• Calendar bugfixes - quipo
• Crypt_GPG bugfixes / improvements - gauthierm