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

[denise]

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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[puzzlement]

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?

[denise]

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