Bug fix party - this Saturday, December 17 2005

On Saturday, December 17 at 18:00GMT (noon eastern time US, 7pm central european time), I will be welcoming the whole Drupal community to a Bug Fixing party. Even if you can't attend at that time, you can still help out. See below.

We are determined to make 4.7 our most powerful, and least buggy release to date. Almost everyone can contribute in one way or another. Our party is coordinated via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Meet fellow Drupalites in the room entitled #drupal-bugfix on the server chat.freenode.net. If you are unfamilar with IRC, you will need to download an IRC client application to your PC.

Here are some relevant links:

You may help in several ways:

  1. Review outstanding bugs. Assure that they are clearly described and are valid as opposed to a misunderstanding on the part of the bug author. If you have installed and/or administered a Drupal site, you can be of great help at this task. Post follow-ups to outstanding issues clarifying the problem, or stating that the problem is not a software bug, but rather a user misunderstanding. Close duplicate bugs as needed.
  2. Reproduce outstanding bugs. If you can install and administer a Drupal site, you can help replicate problems reported and not yet verified. Your verification plus any additional details you provide will help immensely in quickly locating and fixing the bug. Post follow-ups to the issue indicating that you were able to duplicate the bug, and what your test environment was (operating system, installed modules, browsers, etc. as appropriate) when you duplicated it.
  3. Fix bugs. If you are a developer, look over the outstanding issues list and find some bugs to squash.
  4. Review patches. If you are a developer, monitor the patch queue and assure that the attachments there fix the reported bug and don't cause unwanted side effects.

We will all be together in IRC to help each other out, as well.

Drupal version: Drupal 4.7.x

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