PerlBugAthon

Why

There are currently around 1450 open tickets in the perlbug database. Many of these are years old. Others are already resolved in current versions of perl. Some might not be bugs at all.

The PerlBugAthon aims to:

Mark issues as closed which are resolved in current versions of perl. (up to 5.8.1)
Make sure open issues have repeatable test.
Merge duplicate issues.
Solve simple issues.

Goal

The goal is to reduce the number of open tickets by around 500.

Where

At the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
From the comfort of your own home...
On irc.perl.org in #bugathon

Sponsor

Onyx Neon is a consulting company dedicated to supporting Open Source development and Open Source developers.

Onyx Neon will donate $1 per resolved issue to The Perl Foundation.

When

The BugAthon accounting will terminate at 6AM PDT (GMT-7) on Monday July 14th, when the new bug summary is generated.

Kickoff meeting is tenatatively scheduled for 2PM PDT (GMT-7) on Sunday July 6th in the Hotel Lobby. (Depending on network access, glare, and noise, it may move elsewhere. There will be signage, updates here, and on the irc channel.)

What to bring

Yourself.
A notebook computer.
Ethernet cable or 802.11b card.
The urge to close bugs.

No special skills required. If you've never looked at the perl source code, thats ok! There will be plenty of bugs that won't require that at all. You should be familiar with perl. This is probably the wrong place to start learning it.

Details

If you don't currently have access to modify bugs in the perl bug database, you can email a summary of your research to the address below, and someone will update the database for you. (Please don't just say "bug fixed", but be specific about where you tested, what you did, what version of perl, so the record can be updated.)

Contact Info

Questions? Drop a note to perlbugathon2003@perl.org.