As Matt said, the priorities are: * check if a ticket is still valid on trunk * reduce the ticket to an as small as possible code snippet reproducing the problem * then you can optionally fix it, but this is way less important than the first two steps :) Also, there are bound to come up lots of extra things to discuss during the day in the IRC channel. So please do not shy away from taking part, know that I am amongst the people that have the same ‘problem’ of not being fluent in hacking the core of MacRuby too! :) Eloy On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti@gmail.com> wrote:
I think the critical aspect of this event is to reduce and triage bugs. Just confirming bugs and finding reductions would save hours of work fir the entire team.
Something we could do is to split the tickets among the online people and go one by one, confirm the bug against trunk, see if it is as reduced as possible and submit a reduction otherwise. One doesn't have to fix bugs to join the fun :) Some tickets will be marked as easy and people interested in learning the internals will be able to try hacking around.
- Matt
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On Nov 30, 2010, at 11:43, Caio Chassot <lists@caiochassot.com> wrote:
On 2010-11-30, at 14:36 , Rich Morin wrote:
I'd like to know a bit more about the activities (and required skills) for the Bug smash days. For example, my C/C++/Objective-C skills are rather rusty and in any case, I have no knowledge about MacRuby internals...
I too would like to know more about what skills could be put to use.
I have some knowledge, however terribly shallow, of the MRI 1.9 source, and I've skimmed parts of the MacRuby source.
Otherwise I'm well familiar with most high level ruby, and I've found my share of bugs in MacRuby's more unpopular corners.
I doubt I can fix anything on the Cocoa end, but I can certainly work on reductions.
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