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

[purplecat]

Given denise's reply below I shall probably hold off claiming it for a bit, at least until I'm a bit more confident about what I'm doing.

However, the bug in question is 2908. I've found some of the code, but haven't yet drilled down through anything from front end to database, and I'm not quite sure about what the preferred way for storing user preferences like this might be - e.g. is there a preferences table somewhere? should it be controlled via the LJ::is_enabled function? So any pointers to relevant documentation or some code where something similar is done would be helpful!!

[denise]

User preferences are stored with "userprops" -- they're found in bin/upgrading/proplists.dat (and new ones are loaded by update-db.pl, so if you make a change there, be sure to run the update script!) Check htdocs/update.bml (at least I think that's where it is, it might be in a function linked from there somewhere) for the "don't autoformat" option -- that's a "remember last saved value" thing as well and you can compare.

(LJ::is_enabled is for site-wide stuff, not things settable by users -- it's more used for "let's make it possible for site admins to shut off this entire feature if they don't want it on their site".)

[purplecat]

Thanks! I'll take a look around. CLA should be on its way to you.