Bug Hunting Weekends

Bug Hunting Weekends are weekends (or sometimes just one day) where a few DokuWiki developers gather on the IRC channel and work together on any open bugs and feature requests.

The rationale behind it is that it is more fun to work on bug fixing together and having immediate feedback and discussions makes it easier to decide how a bug is best fixed or if a feature should be implemented or not.

BHW's are held irregularly and are announced and coordinated through the mailing list. Everyone is invited to join. Even if you can't code you can help with testing and reproducing bugs on various systems.

Here's an example of the results of a previous BHW.

• Join the IRC channel
• Go through open tasks at the bug tracker
  • if you think a task can be closed but aren't sure, ask in IRC, otherwise just close
  • If you don't have enough permissions to close tasks ask in the IRC for a status upgrade
  • if reasonable, write tests for open bugs
  • assign bugs you want to work on to you
  • fix bugs you can fix within reasonable time
  • add comments to outline how a bug could be fixed when fixing itself would take a lot of time
• Send patches to the mailinglist, as github pull request or to Andi
• Goal: handle (that is answer or close) as much tasks as possible

The next bug hunt is currently being scheduled.