dw_dev_training | yes, it's the BUG-O-MATIC! it slices! it dices!

yes, it's the BUG-O-MATIC! it slices! it dices!

Round and around and around it goes; where it stops, only D knows!

Several people in irc have mentioned how much they like it when I pull out bugs that I particularly want done and try to match them up with people to do them, since it takes the pressure of having to pick a bug to work on away from them. I am offering to do the same for people who don't frequent irc, or are never there when I'm around!

If you want me to suggest for you a selection of bugs that I think you might enjoy working on, tell me:

* Your experience level (n00b, beginner, middling-fair, experienced, hot shit)
* Any areas you particularly like working on
* Any areas you particularly hate working on
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now
* Your favorite patch you've written so far (the one you were most proud of, the one that was most fun to do, etc)
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so

I will then suggest for you a list of 3-5 bugs that I think you might enjoy doing! There is no obligation involved -- the bugs will not be automatically assigned to you, nor will they be your responsibility to fix. This is just an opportunity to get a selection of bugs pointed out to you that you might not pick out of the 600-some open bugs clamoring for attention, in the hopes you might find something interesting to work on.

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I like this game. I'd like to play, please.

* Your experience level (n00b, beginner, middling-fair, experienced, hot shit) -- Beginner, but with an awful lot of rust.
* Any areas you particularly like working on -- I like fixing the little dumb things that are annoying but that nobody ever gets around to doing anything baout because they aren't annoying enough. And stuff where I can go "I fixed that!" when I see it on site.
* Any areas you particularly hate working on -- I have an abiding hatred of the profile page, which I think was coded by cats. Particularly malicious cats.
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now -- JS, S2.
* Your favorite patch you've written so far (the one you were most proud of, the one that was most fun to do, etc) -- Add table of contents to faq.bml
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so -- Fairly simple. I have a fair bit of free time to devote to DW but I want to put most of that towards docs work (which I really need to talk to you about), though I'd like to dip my toe back into dev stuff as well.

Okay! For you, a selection of little things that are mostly usability tweaks, to improve user experience:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2474
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2182
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2331
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2284
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2278

And one that's a stretch, but which I believe is relevant to your interests:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2369

Can't promise I'll do anything, but this might just give me the motivation

Experience: Middling-fair but out-of-practice
Areas I like: Styles (not just the S2 side of things, but the general code around styles)
Areas I hate: Anything involving workers!
Code areas I don't know: Out of practice so pretty much all of it, but definitely workers.
Favourite patch: Been a while but probably the most fun was the work I did on fixing S2 prior to beta launch
Complexity/Time: Definitely simple/not much time to devote. I want to get back into helping but I don't want to get burned so trying something short and sweet would be good.

Excellent! Your selection, madame, revolves around the small details of S2 and the style system, with some individual-layout flavor:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836

Heh, I'll bite!

* Your experience level: hot shit >_<
* Any areas you particularly like working on: backend
* Any areas you particularly hate working on: extensive frontend -- some frontend is okay
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know: not in the mood to learn the payment system right now
* Your favorite patch you've written so far: probably the importer or TT/Routing
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex: I *should* be doing other things, but I have only free time -- and I kinda need semi-complex to keep me interested, but if you are in the mood to knock out bugs, quick but complex!

Two bugs I'm assigned to have me in a funk so some fun would be lovely.

* I'm a total n00b.
* I don't think there's an area I particularly like or hate working on. Not knowing anything I take anything I think I can try and fix.
* There are so many areas of the code I don't know if would be pointless to list them. Also I don't quite know what you mean by areas of code. :/
* Hmm. I'm most proud of the patches I've done where I felt I was completely in over my head and which took me a bit of investigating to find where I should get started (because there are so many areas of code I don't know? ;)). So maybe #840 or #2593.
* I can't do complex so... Let's say I have some free time.

excellent! madame will perhaps find the following of interest:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2100
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2164
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2186
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2231
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2277

And, the stretch-which-gives-you-a-chance-to-learn-more:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2185

Thank you!

Yes please!

Experience level: utter n00b
(so the next few categories are irrelevant)
Complexity level sought: simple
How much free time I'll have for DW in the next month or so: Not a whole lot, so I'd like something low-priority that I can poke at slowly.

Hmmmm. Okay, for you we get some bugs that are simple to start off with:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2646
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1865

And, for some bugfixy goodness:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1956

Thank you, ma'am!

Experience Level: I'm... not sure? In Dreamwidth-specific coding I'm an utter n00b-- I don't know much Perl and version control and using/updating my dreamhack is something I'm still constantly re-learning. Otherwise I probably have educational background that would put me in middling-fair, and in terms of practical application I'm still a floundering beginner.
Areas of code: I have not done nearly enough to know what I like or dislike, I don't think. I like doing "new" things so that I learn, but at this point, just about anything is probably new, so really whatever, wherever.
Favorite patch: Probably 620 (was an English-stripping bug), because it was a little more involved than the the other two that I picked up mostly to figure out how patching worked.
Simple/Complex/Free Time: Simple. I don't really have a lot of free time to devote to figuring out more than one complex/time-consuming thing, and I'm already working on trying to convert my style to S2. I think I'd mostly want something simple enough that I can mainly focus on figuring out patching (again) and where things are. I'd like to do it enough that I don't feel like it's a big thing to figure out each time so I can focus on more complex bugs later.

Okay! See if any of these strike your fancy:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2567
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2581
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2618

* Your experience level (n00b, beginner, middling-fair, experienced, hot shit): beginner
* Any areas you particularly like working on: Little bugs I can understand
* Any areas you particularly hate working on: Javascript
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now: Javascript
* Your favorite patch you've written so far (the one you were most proud of, the one that was most fun to do, etc): I can't actually remember; it's been a while.
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: I have a reasonable amount of free time, since I'm stalled on all my current AO3 stuff, but would need some mentoring and support for anything bigger, which is where I fell down before.

For you, let's go with some usability tweaks and bugfixes, mostly:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2512
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2535
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2474 (I know it's effort-medium but I think it's lying)
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2456

If it helps, I am not sure whether 2474 is effort-medium, either. I suppose it would require a new function (add_new_interest_from_keyword or something), but nothing outrageously complicated. I think.

Experience: Utter n00b yeaaaaah! But I know I will learn stuff faster if I have a goal so :3
Complexity/Time: Simple is better (see above), but I actually have a fair bit of free time right now!

Hmm. Okay, here's a few that might interest you:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2370
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2345
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2347
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2371

And one that's a bit of a stretch and would need some careful thought on how the feature should work, but I believe in starting big:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2377

I'd like to participate :)

* Your experience level: Perl/MySQL: experienced; Javascript/CSS: beginner; DW: n00b
* Any areas you particularly like working on: don't know yet
* Any areas you particularly hate working on: design / styles
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now: don't mind learning anything
* Your favorite patch you've written so far: I've written only one (XML-RPC protocol), it was not accepted (yet?) anyway
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: something medium; I may be able to spend a couple of hours per day for DW, but my job is kind of unpredictable.

Okay, I am biting just to see what you come up with :P

* Your experience level: experienced
* Any areas you particularly like working on: everything except the below ones (backend stuff is fine, JS is fine)
* Any areas you particularly hate working on: Style System, heavy database stuff, ESN
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now: I'll take anything :P
* Your favorite patch you've written so far: tag merge, BECAUSE !!!
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: I am looking for something bot too complex right now (I have bookmarking and community inbox stuff for that), but I'd like something... fiddly? Something that might not take too long (couple of hours), but require code digging instead of code writing if you see what I mean

Let's see. You said you wanted something fiddly, so I was tempted to throw some ESN bugs at you. ;) But I'll behave... instead, I shall give you some much older bugs that might have dropped off your radar.

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272

hypatia suggested I pop in here and maybe get inspired for some stuff to spend my Copious Free Time on.

Your experience level: utter n00b to the DW codebase, experienced developer in general, although Perl is not exactly my core language.

Any areas you particularly like working on: client software, networking, caching, character encoding bugs.

Any areas you particularly hate working on: anything that requires cross-browser stuff. (Ew.) I'd probably want to steer clear of HTML, CSS and JS in general for now.

Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so: let's say I have 5 to 10 hours. Nothing really deeply complex, because that time will be arranged around a baby and I won't have hours to unpick layers and layers of code. But I'm happy to write lots of lines of code, it doesn't have to be a teeny change. So, um, medium?

Hmmm. I'm kind of taking a stab in the dark here, since your interests nicely overlap the bits that I don't understand very well myself. *g* But let's try dangling some of these in front of you and see if any of them appeal:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233

:D Cycling between "I am procrastinating from my GSoC project by working on these" and "I am procrastinating from working on there by working on my GSoC project" seems like an excellent way to spend my summer break!

* Your experience level To compensate for my lack of familiarity with the DW code and the utter hideousness of some parts of the LJ code, I am going to say beginner
* Any areas you particularly like working on Not specific areas of the code, but I like little "this is so friggin annoying (but easy to fix)" things.
* Any areas you particularly hate working on Nope.
* Any areas of the code you know you don't know, or that confuse you or whatever, and you don't particularly want to learn right now Nope.
* Your favorite patch you've written so far My favorite is one that I haven't submitted yet because I can't actually test it because it involves email posting, purely because after six years of "WTF IS THAT WHY DOES IT NOT MAKE SENSE DDDDDD:" I have finally conquered regex.
* Whether you're looking for something simple or complex, and how much free time you have to devote to DW in the next month or so Simple would be awesome, and I have aaaaaaaall the time in the world this month.

You get pointed at the complexities of English-stripping, then!

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2704
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2100

Then, how about some nice soothing code cleanup?

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2665
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657

And, some little stuff:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2512
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2445

TOTAL n00b. I just picked up a Perl book the other day and did my first Hello, world! But I'm eager and I've got the time pretty much every evening to play with code.

I'm looking for something pretty simple right now, as I get my feet wet. I've probably got around 30 hours or so over the month (roughly an hour a night, probably more but I don't want to over-commit right at the beginning).

Hello,
I am actually working with a small group of people for a class project. Our goal is to contribute to an open source project and we have selected dreamwidth because one of our members has previous experience with the project. Collectively we are middle/experienced in programming, but relatively new to Perl (but can most likely manage). We are pretty open to any bugs, especially some smaller ones to cut our teeth on getting around the Dreamhack and then hopefully a larger one.
I personally don't have much experience working on open source and am still learning the code, so I can't really say what I prefer not to learn right now. Also as a group we fixed a bug where the focus moved from the quote button to the text box. I was proud to actually see real results!
Ideally we'd like to work on something sorta complex, but start simple so that we can ease our way in. As a group we have at least a month to work on it, but hopefully we can continue to contribute even after the class is over.
Thanks!

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yes, it's the BUG-O-MATIC! it slices! it dices!

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Oooooo... I'll bite

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