April-May Old Bugs Hackathon

[denise]

It's time for our next hackathon! The suggestions hackathon did really well in getting people inspired to clear out some older stuff, so I thought, what about clearing out some really old stuff?

From now until May 30, patching a bug with a Bugzilla ID number under 2000 (so, 1-1999) will earn 10 DW points if it's effort-minor, 50 if it's effort-medium, and 100 if it's effort-major. Patching a bug with a three-digit or less Bugzilla ID (1-999) will carry a 50% points bonus (so, 15 for effort-minor, 75 effort-medium, 150 effort-major).

I know a lot of the older bugs are huge epic things (major projects we logged up front), but many of them are smaller fixes! There's even a codemerge or two. Check out the unassigned bugs and see if there's an older bug you can give some love to.

Comments

[stormy]

Are you able to make Bugzilla accounts using your dreamwidth email?

[denise]

Sure, you can use whatever email address works for you!

Also, we ask that you add your username in brackets with a colon in front of it under your "Real Name" in the Account Information tab, like so:

Denise Paolucci [:denise]

Other than that, put in whatever you want in that field.

[stormy]

Aha. I tried using my dreamwidth email to register and it gave me an error. It says to pass it on to mark. Should I toss it that way, post it, send it somewhere else?

I tried with another email and it worked fine, though it's not really the email I'd want to use.

And will do with the username.

[denise]

Huh. It shouldn't be a problem -- there doesn't seem to be anything in the configs that prevent people from using a dw address -- but I'll look into it some more. In the meantime, what about a gmail address that forwards to your preferred email?

[stormy]

One step ahead of you with the gmail address. ♥ I love my labels and folders and filtering way too much.

It tossed me the following error:

Bugzilla has suffered an internal error. Please save this page and send it to mark@dreamwidth.org with details of what you were doing at the time this message appeared.

URL: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/createaccount.cgi?login=stormy%40dreamwidth.org
There was an error sending mail from 'bugzilla-daemon@bugs.dwscoalition.org' to 'stormy@dreamwidth.org':Can't send data

 at Bugzilla/Mailer.pm line 188
	Bugzilla::Mailer::MessageToMTA(...) called at Bugzilla/Token.pm line 90
	Bugzilla::Token::issue_new_user_account_token(...) called at /var/www/bugs.dwscoalition.org/public_html/createaccount.cgi line 73

[denise]

huh. that's a really weird error message. I'll poke at it a bit more when I get the chance!

[mark]

Known issue -- never got around to fixing it. Since the dreamwidth.org emails only forward to other accounts anyway, I usually just tell people to use another email. If you really are worried about security you can create a dummy throwaway account on gmail or whatever and just set the forwarding there.

I looked into it once, it wasn't obvious, so I never finished digging into it and fixing it.