On Sep 1, 3:32 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(This is really from Michael Abshoff.)
Hello folks,
Sage's Bug Day 2 is almost upon us -- It will happen on Friday September 7th,
2007. We usually start about 10am pacific standard time, but feel free
to drop by the IRC channel #sage-devel any time. Last time the bug
fixing went on for 16 hours and then continued the day after. We agreed
upon to claim that all of us played a MMORG to appear less geeky, but I
am not sure that it succeeded.
Some of you might not be coders or not familiar with Sage's code. But
you can still help testing, writing documentation and tracking issue. A
bug day in IRC is usually a pretty good way to pick up on the Sage way
of doing things. You can ask developers questions and interact with
them. Don't be intimidated, it is easier than you think to start
contributing and starting with testing and documentation is the usual
way to get involved in Open Source.
For a list of open tickets
seehttp://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-2.9- but feel free to
resolve a couple of those before the bug day. I am sure that there are
plenty of tickets to go around for everybody and if we run out I am sure
that we can come up with some more issues.
If you already know that you will participate please reply and let us
know which area of the code you would like to work on. Once more: if you
do not have a trac account please contact William and get one before bug
day 2.
Cheers,
Michael
P.S. From William -- Seattle people -- we should discuss at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
about a common meeting place.
A couple more remarks:
- The 2.8.4 release has been pushed back two days after the bug day.
It is planned that William releases a development snapshot about a day
before so that the people interested in working on bugs have a common
base to work from. It is highly recommended that you do your build
ahead of time saving you the hour or so (obviously more on slower
systems) to get up to speed. 2.9 will is planned roughly a week and a
half after the 2.8.4 release, but that might (and probably will
change). I don't know what is planned for/ready to go into 2.9 at the
moment, so maybe William will enlighten us.
- all info about Bug Day 2 can be found at http://www.sagemath.org:9001/bug2
including info about joining #sage-devel on IRC.
- I will particiapate and concentrate on memory leaks and packaging
issues (mostly on Solaris). I did add that info to the wiki page.
Cheers,
Michael
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