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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2010-05-26 02:01 am
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The June Clean-Up-The-Little-Stuff Hackathon

So, the other day I took a look at our number of open bugs (currently 689) and resolved bugs (currently 1948) and realized: it was time for a hackathon!

For this one, since Mark's time is really constrained this month and Fu will be doing most of the review/commit work in addition to her other duties, we're going to concentrate on whacking the little stuff: the effort-minor bugs, the half-an-hour fixes, the small UI tweaks, the little bits of code cleanup, etc. This isn't to say that you can't do the bigger stuff if you want, just that the priority for this month should be blazing through all the small, quickly-fixed pieces. (If we were a different kind of project, someone would be using the phrase "low-hanging fruit" right about now.) We also welcome, and in fact encourage, people to be doing code review of others' patches as well as code work.

My goal is to get the open count under 600 open bugs by June 30. (This will also mean that we'll surpass 2000 resolved bugs, too. Which will be awesome.)

To help keep track, I'll be posting regular progress reports! If you've been thinking about picking up a bug or two, now's the time to do it. And if you're working on something huge, why not take an afternoon and knock out some little things?

We've got Bugzilla searches for unassigned effort-minor bugs and unassigned from-suggestions bugs (many of which are quick hits too).

Let's get cracking; I totally know we can knock those numbers down like whoa if we really give it a shot. :)
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[personal profile] poulpette 2010-05-26 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Just a heads up, both your links return invalid saved search error messages on my side.
I think it's maybe because of the missing sharer_id argument? I managed to have them work by adding &sharer_id=2 at the end of the url.
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[personal profile] jportela 2010-05-26 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll do my best to help get that bug count down. Plus, June 30 is my birthday!
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[personal profile] allen 2010-05-27 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I came up way short on the last hackathon, so I'm not making any promises this time.
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[personal profile] heavenlyevil 2010-05-27 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a complete n00b, but I'll grab a Perl book from the library and see what I can do.
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[personal profile] heavenlyevil 2010-05-27 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! Thanks. :)
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[personal profile] foxfirefey 2010-05-27 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We might want to do another bug amnesty, too.
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2010-05-29 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
+1
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[personal profile] ce_jour_la 2010-05-29 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'm completely new to this, but I figure that book on Perl that's been collecting dust needs to go somewhere. Please feel free to hunt me down if I wind up breaking something.
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[personal profile] foxfirefey 2010-05-30 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's possible that we've made all the progress on this bug that we can:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2280

We've contacted the forum owner and know of what exception to tell people to add until it's implemented in code.
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[personal profile] cadenzamuse 2010-06-02 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, this sounds perfect. [personal profile] sophie mentioned that someone might be willing to walk me through a bug so I can start to get a handle on things? Shall I go rummaging through Bugzilla for something that strikes my fancy, or how should I go about this? (The little things I wish were different are probably all comment interface things.)