Bug Triage Day December 6-7th 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 Dec 6th/7th; 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 results¹⁾ 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
    • Bug #14977 Tests should skip if version of PEAR is too old - doconnor, in discussion / Nov 17
    • Bug #14931 Validate unit test failure - doconnor, contacted Nov 5
    • Bug #14868 Validate_AT unit test failures - doconnor, contacted Nov 5 and 27th
  • Followup on Updating unit tests to PHPUnit3
    • Services_Yadis - maintained? Or can we get these bugs resolved? New release (doconnor)

• 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
  • Bug #14988 Non-int parsing returns bogus result - cweiske, patch awaiting commit
• 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
  • contact maintainer
  • look for a new maintainer (Tom R? I think I scared this one off - doconnor)
• Do a Text_Figlet release - doconnor, done
• Get Image_JpegXmpReader into CVS (emailed)

• Payment_DTA got a new owner
• PHPUnit 3
  • Console_GetArgs - doconnor & cweiske
  • Numbers_Words - increased unit test coverage, phpcs and more - doconnor, izi, ifeghali & cweiske
• Bugs
  • Bug #14877 PEAR_Command_Packing test failure - doconnor
  • New Services_Blogging version fixing Bug #15028