Bugzilla: Getting Started Question

[purplecat]

I'm a really, really new developer (fired up my dreamhack for the first time about an hour ago) and I've been working through the documentation and poking through the code. I've found an unclaimed bug in a babydev bug list which looks like a nice place to start.

My question is should I claim the bug on bugzilla now, or wait until I'm reasonably confident I've found all the relevant bits of code and have a plan for how I'm going to go about fixing it?

Comments

[yvi]

I prefer people claiming as soon as they think they want to start on a bug - I had at least one situation where I was looking at a bug and looking at code already and didn't claim and then someone else did the "claim while already uploading a patch" thing.

[purplecat]

I promise faithfully to actually claim the bug before I write a single line of code to deal with it. Right now I'm just poking at code and thinking about it and I don't think at the moment that time will be wasted, even if someone does fix the bug from under me.