dw_dev_training | Starter bugs

This post is an attempt to reach out to people who aren't in IRC but still interested in starting development, to assist them and get things rolling. Here I've made a list of things that look like good starter candidates from effort-minor and unassigned tickets on Bugzilla in this post. People who have suggestions for other bugs or think some should not be included, let me know.

You can browse through the code at the repository, and we have a page on the layout of the main folder. If you want to start doing development, the easiest way is to get ahold of a Dreamhack. That's a ready made and hosted DW install. Once you have one, you'll have to keep the code updated. Right now we have around one month until our next code push due to

mark's wedding and honeymoon!

More documentation:

Beginning dev checklist
Bugzilla workflow -- here you can find instructions on creating an account and claiming bugs
Dev Finding Things
Dev Programming Guidelines, summaried in Programming Guideline Checklist
Dev Version Control

The following is a list of about 60 smaller bugs; some are easier than others. If you feel like doing one, browse through them and see if there are any that strike your fancy. If you want to claim one, claim it on Bugzilla and post a comment about it here so I can mark it as taken.

If you run into problems or have questions, I encourage you to ask them in comments to this post or in the community; use as much detail as you can describing what you're trying to do and how you want to do it. People who already do DW development, I encourage you to track this post or pop in from time to time for people asking questions.

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I wonder -- does this search work for you? http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/buglaist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=starter

Only a partial list so far, as an experiment. I can't get to it logged out, and I don't know if being logged in as someone else will let me see it.

No--it tells me "the search named starter does not exist". (I fixed the typo of an "a" in "buglaist".)

I also love the idea of having a Bugzilla search for suitable starter bugs.

Aw, man. I did that using the "named tag" for bugs thing, but I guess that is only for personal use. I think that only D and Mark can share searches, but if we used named-tags, I think that would mean that the person doing the sharing would have to do the updating, which would be a lot of effort.

Maybe we could ask for a "suitable for starters" keyword, instead? Anyone can add a keyword, and we can set up a search quite easily...

I think a keyword is a good idea, and very much in line with our babydev friendly ethos!

Bring it up to Mark and D if you can catch them online? I think right now is very late for all of you! *g*

It is getting late! I will do it if I see them.

One more thought:

should we split it up into "css-y", "js-y", "perl-ish", "s2-ish" etc? Would that makes things easier to find, for someone looking for a bug within their range?

I don't think it'd be bad to have additionally keywords for expertise focus for all bugs, either! Probably want "database", too? Not sure what others.

But yes, it'd be nice to be able to sort through bugs by what kind of work they do, too.

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