This past week WordPress development had the most successful bug hunts ever! I spoke correct, plural, two bug hunts. These hunters are the best!
“Find, confirm, and fix bugs, then submit and test patches for those bugs.”
From WordPress Bug Hunts
Ryan has done an amazing job running a bug hunt almost every month since I started with WordPress full-time in September.
This past week there were two WordPress bug hunt. One, our usual monthly hunt, starting Tuesday night (here) and ran until 17:00 PST Wednesday, and the second, a weekend edition, starting Friday night and ran through Saturday — I did not particulate in the weekend edition because I was being mortgaged, but the IRC log and the bug activity show it was also a great success.
Holding these two events reflects the amount of participation in the WordPress development. WordPress 2.2 (schedule: April 23rd) is already looking awesome — I run it here (I am still really looking forward to tagging being added).
Confirming that you see the same problem as a reported bug, itself is a huge, valuable contribution! If more people did this one task, WordPress quality would be positively affected. Being able to reproduce a bug, is the first step to being able to fix it.
There were some first time participants during these hunts: 30rg3x, charleshooper, d32, datdesignguy, Dan Coulter, and schnibble.
“The best part is that some new contributors came in and really kicked ass”
Robin Adrianse continued demonstrating himself as a top contributor to WordPress. He was joined by equally influential contributor Jeremy Visser.
John Blackbourn (johnbillion) has continued to put to rest old and new bug reports.
Jennifer Hodgdon who recently started very impressive work in the developer sections of the WordPress Codex is now also making her presence felt strongly in WordPress’ bug tracker.
Jennifer, Jeremy, John, and Robin particularly continue to show themselves to be WordPress superstars, and have a special place in my thoughts with some of the greater WordPress bug hunters like Bas Bosman (nazgul), Nikolay Bachiyski, Rob Miller, Roy Schestowitz, Sewar, Scott Merrill (skippy), Viper007Bond, and so many others!
Mark Jaquith helped Ryan with patch review and committing, and also worked on some big items. Peter Westwood (westi) and Robert Deaton made appearances, and Matt coordinated some of the effort early Wednesday morning.
See you at the next bug hunt! But don’t wait until the next one to contribute to WordPress development.
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I agree – however, with every new development… there will always be new bugs. It’s the “Death & Taxes (and bugs)” theory.
Well said run dogg!
Once code is bug near-free, there are no infestations — unlike the biological analogy. Bugs tend to be fewer and less severe in the older core functionality, and are discovered in the new features and the peripheral older features.