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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What's the protocol if we think that a bug may have been fixed but not closed?

I'm looking at Bug #1131 from above - Untrack this has a pushpin instead of a bell. Under all four site schemes, I'm seeing a bell with an X on it on posts that I'm tracking, not a pushpin.

You're right--but I don't think the bug is fixed entirely yet. When you're subscribing to a post with the AJAX option, it replaces it with the pushpin image instead of the bell with the X. I've added that as a note on the bug report, thanks!

That's actually reported separately (I believe

afuna just marked #1131 as a duplicate), and should be fixed soon as long as my patch checks out okay.

Apparently so! Thank for the update, I'll take it off the list.

Ah. That makes sense. I'm only vaguely aware of what "the AJAX option" is. Live and learn...

As long as I'm bugging you with questions... is O'Reilly's camel book still considered a good perl reference? I'd like to be able to contribute to development, but I'm more of a Java person so I have some learning to do first.

Bug away! That's what this post is for.

Your comment made me realize I should give a little more explanation for anybody who doesn't know what I meant by the AJAX option (bad me, slipping into inaccessible lingo): basically if you click on the tracking button on a post, a little div pops up with options which all disappear when you hit the save button, letting you dynamically submit your request without a page reload. This technique is called AJAX.

We have two freely available online books for Perl that we point people to:

Beginning Perl and Picking Up Perl. There is also a Wikibook on Perl Programming.

However, I have always liked the Camel book myself, so if you have access to it, I recommend it. But it's not your only option, and nobody needs to buy a book just to catch up!

Gotcha. Thanks :)

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