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

[foxfirefey]

If you claim it and tell us where it is, we could give you pointers on where to find the relevant bits of code!

[denise]

I personally tend to claim the bug after I get some progress made on it, to make sure I won't wind up stalling out, but it's not at all uncommon to have people claim and release bugs on and off -- you aren't committing yourself to HAVE TO patch the bug if you assign it to yourself; there's no shame in dropping a bug you don't want to do anymore. So either way is fine!

Also, have you submitted a CLA yet? :)

[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.