Bug Triage Day January 17th-18th 2009

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 January 17th-18th 2009; 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)
3. migration of packages to package 2.0

• 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 :( - gauthierm fixed broken unit tests
    • Bug #14969 Property groups not supported
    • Validate_BE unit tests fail - doconnor
    • Mock out Services_Amazon_SQS - gauthierm is making progress
  • 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) HTTP_Session now skips if it can't control the test environment - doconnor

• 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
• XML_Feed_Parser
  • classify other test failure types, file bugs / fix them :)
  • doconnor: excluded from test suite for the moment.
• 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 #14871 E_NOTICE breaks test (captchanumeral.firstandsecond.phpt)
• Image_Barcode
  • Look at open bugs
• Get Image_JpegXmpReader into CVS (emailed on 6th, 27th)

• New releases which would be handy (look at, talk to maintainers, etc)
  • Services_ExchangeRates 0.6 - doconnor did a release
  • Numbers_Words
  • Image_Graph - doconnor emailed on 27th
  • DB_DataObject - troehr emailed on 27th
  • MDB2 - troehr emailed on 27th done
  • HTTP_Upload - New release? Not so much; work is still in progress re translation, says cwenz
  • MDB2_Driver_mysql done
  • 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 - avb and lifeforms (walter) are on it
    • http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=11238 - reasonably high impact - needs much refactoring, probably a Mail release too.
  • Math_Finance - get it into cvs - doconnor
    • Usage examples would be neat
  • Contact_Vcard_Build
  • Contact_Vcard_Parse
• Test the new version of pearweb - http://euk1.php.net/
  • doconnor made a few patches for trivial issues
  • Releases don't work :( White screen of death