Masterlist: bugs for beginners

[kaberett]

Last updated: 2021-02-97

This is a list of bugs that will serve as a good introduction to the Dreamwidth development workflow. They involve varying levels of rummaging up to your elbows in the guts of the code but I can promise that we'll all be only to pleased to help :-) If in doubt, just take a look at the list of things real DW programmers do...

Struck out bugs are ones that have been claimed but not yet resolved. All issues on this list are tagged curated: beginner - I update this post once a fortnight, but by all means check the GHI tag to see if there's anything I haven't mentioned yet! If you're after a challenge, you can also try looking at non-curated lower-effort issues, all unassigned issues, or rummage through dw_suggestions' bugzilla: migrated tag for features you'd like to implement. (If you do that last one, check to make sure that the entry isn't also tagged bugzilla: implemented, and that there isn't a corresponding assigned issue.)

• Issue #673: implement option to make tags go above entry text in all styles. This is additionally tagged effort-higher, but that's because it's a small change that needs applying in an awful lot of places.
  
• Issue #674: standardise option to have navigation links at the top/in header. This is similar, in that it's effort-higher because it's a lot of small changes.
  
• Issue #829: calendar overflows in Leftovers when font is big enough.
  
• Issue #966: convert birthdays.tt to use Foundation.
  
• Issue #967: convert login.tt to use Foundation. These days Dreamwidth uses a combination of tt (Template Toolkit) and Foundation to style pages - there's a fair bit on the wiki and lots of help to be had in IRC!
  
• Issue #968: convert protected.tt to use Foundation.
  
• Issue #1482: Clarify header image options in Heads Up style.
  
• Issue #1817: Make nav strip and hover menu behave consistently when joining moderated-membership communities. This requires applying the fix for #1599, previously featured on this list, to the nav strip as well as the hover menu!
  
• Issue #1841: suggested improvement for /admin/priv: include packages in dropdown. Include things that already exist in a dropdown menu!
  
• Issue #1944: screening/unscreening confirmation page should have link back to comment
  
• Issue #1987: selective screening should only act on account types that can comment. Communities can't comment, and people who try to ban anonymous comments actually currently end up banning the community anonymous! This is a confusing state of affairs.
  
• <>Issue #2018: Abstractia journal style needs background repeats.</> Because otherwise things end up looking weird and unhappy on large screens. A quick bit of style-wrangling!
  
• Issue #2140: clarify check-all tickybox on https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=notifications. Some UI needs improving -- and Denise has suggested wording! It's just a case of filling it out.
  
• Issue 2208: Outdated comment in cgi-bin/LJ/S2/EntryPage.pm line 389, links to dead LJ URL
  
• Issue #2287: English-strip LJ::check_mail. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2360: <s> is stripped from entry titles. Two-character fix!
  
• Issue #2364: "please try beta update page instead". Add a banner to the beta version of the Create Entries page!
  
• Issue #2380: Typos in https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=shortcuts.
  
• Issue #2408: Reword warning in https://dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced. It's currently far more off-putting than it needs to be!
  
• Issue #2439: Remove comms from lost account / lost pw email... because in this brave new world this no longer a useful concept. Code machete!
  
• Issue #2627: update AO3 user links to use HTTPS
  
• Issue #2368: add Twitch to embed whitelist. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2349: add Podomatic to embed whitelist. Here's how!
  
• Issue #2711: update Github user profile icon to HTTPS
  

If any of the bugs on this list catch your attention, drop us a comment and someone will reconstruct the full bug report for you so's you can get going with it.

One-line fixes
Ideal for learning your way around Dreamhacks & github!

• Bug 2859: add a sentence of text (and, if you're feeling really wild, a link!) to the "manage filters" page. This is to signpost the easiest ways to modify someone's membership in multiple access/subscription filters (as opposed to the easiest ways to add or remove batches of people from a specific filter).
  
• Bug 4323: add some warning text about missing features when users choose the style Zesty.
  

A bit more rummaging involved
I also came across a bunch of stuff that I thought "hmm, might be interesting". These are all well-structured and well-specified, and in most cases you've got something to crib off (in the sense that other bits of the codebase already display the desired behaviour, it's just a case of making sure This Bit does too). Look at these if you're after something to cut your teeth on!

• Bug 1696: add "delete" link to month view, to speed up mass deletion.
  
• Bug 1702: tweak the registration page so people enter their username twice as well as their password, and then stick in a bit of Javascript at the bottom to confirm.
  
• Bug 2155: suggest a cut tag at time of posting if post-to-be is longer than [an amount]. (Related: Bug 2824!)
  
• Bug 2816: Create option for easy embedding of cut text into entry
  
• Bug 2871: Button to Bulk-Delete 0-Entry Tags [oh, that's interesting, I didn't include this one because it Looked Like Work; if it's still hanging around when I've finished exams and all of the bugs I haven't touched in six months, I'll have a play with it then ;)]
  
• Bug 2876: Your Layers page: redesign layers table as a tree
  
• Bug 2885: Allow XFN relationships to be defined in Links List
  
• Bug 2920: ajax cut expander should work on latest things page
  
• Bug 3260: improve the interface for managing all comments on a particular page/entry.
  
• Bug 3477: add an extra click when rejecting someone's application for community membership from e-mail, modelled after the "delete a comment" link from e-mail.
  
• Bug 4256: in-line expansion of Adult Content/NSFW warnings, as per existing cuts.
  
• Bug 4363: add in an "are you sure/would you like to save?" pop up when you try to change pages in managing community membership, modelled after the pop-up you get in Customize
  
• Bug 4507: expand all respondents in poll.
  
• Bug 4929: add a final on-site confirmation when claiming OpenIDs.
  

Enjoy! And please do ask for help. Or cheerleading. Or anything else you feel like. ♥