Re: [boost] Second call: The Boost Bug Sprint is coming!!

Subject: Re: [boost] Second call: The Boost Bug Sprint is coming!!
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-27 02:01:40

Hi,
I would like to fix a bug or implement a feature requests for Boost.Thread. Does this has a sens if Anthony, the library maintainer do not participate to this Bug Sprint?

Vicente

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marshall Clow" <marshall_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:10 PM
Subject: [boost] Second call: The Boost Bug Sprint is coming!!

> 
> The boost bug sprint is coming! It starts _this_ Friday, May 28th, 
> and runs through Sunday June 7th.
> 
> The goal is to address a large number of open bugs/patches/feature 
> requests in the Trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/report/1>. 
> There are currently 791 open tickets; we'd like to knock that number 
> down _a lot_.
> 
> What can you do?
> 
> 1) You can fix bugs.
> * If you are a library maintainer, you can commit your fixes. ;-)
> * If you are not a library maintainer, you can fix a problem on your 
> local machine (and test it!!), and then attach your fix as a patch to 
> the Trac ticket for the library maintainer to commit. If you do this, 
> please provide a test case that exercises the problem; i.e, one that 
> fails w/o your patch, and succeeds afterwards.
> 
> 2) You can characterize bugs.
> * You can attempt to replicate the bug on your system(s), and attach 
> information that you discover to the Trac ticket. This will make it 
> easier for other people to solve the problem, even if you cannot.
> * You can write test cases demonstrating the problem, and attach them 
> to the Trac ticket.
> * You can determine if the bug still exists; sometimes they get 
> fixed, and the ticket never gets closed. In this case, try to 
> identify a checkin that addresses the bug; it's always suspicious 
> when bugs go away "by accident."
> 
> 3) You can test patches.
> * Some of the tickets in the Trac system contain patches - some are 
> quite old. You can install these patches on your system, and 
> determine if they (a) build, and (b) work.
> * You can write test cases for the patches, and attach them to the ticket.
> 
> 4) You can help implement new features.
> * There are a whole set of "feature requests" in the Trac system. If 
> you have an idea about one of these, you can add comments to the Trac 
> system. You can attempt to implement these new features, and attach 
> the patch to the ticket. (Don't forget the test cases!!).
> 
> Every day during the bug sprint, I'll post the # of tickets 
> modified/closed/opened on the previous day, as well as the total 
> number of open tickets.
> 
> --------- Sign-up sheet --------
> The following people have committed to participate in the bug sprint.
> Please add you name here, along with what you can do.
> 1) Marshall Clow (coordination, Mac OS X characterization)
> 2) Beman Dawes (filesystem, system, timer)
> 3) Doug Gregor (function, graph, logic, mpi, numeric, property_map, signals)
> 4) "joel falcou" <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]> ( linux gcc testing/VC 2008 
> testing, patching)
> 5) Michael Caisse <boost_at_[hidden]> (bug fixing)
> 6) Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco_at_[hidden]> (will test and commit graph patches)
> 7) David Abrahams (iterator, python)
> 8) Sohail Somani (patches for g++ 4.2.4)
> 
> -- 
> -- Marshall
> 
> Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:marshall_at_[hidden]>
> 
> It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
> It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
> the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
> It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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