Good luck to all!<br><br>Hope it's a huge success and you decide to have a second one so that I can attend after I get back from the WebGUI conference.<br><br>Patrick<br><a href="http://patspam.com">http://patspam.com</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jacinta Richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarich@perltraining.com.au">jarich@perltraining.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
G'day folk,<br>
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You need not have any experience in debugging, working with CPAN, using these modules, testing in Perl or any of those kinds of things to participate in this event. One of the aims of this event is to help you learn these skills.<br>
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This is a reminder that tomorrow's Melbourne Perl Mongers meeting is a debugging/testing party. Our meeting will be kindly hosted by<br>
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Remasys Pty Ltd<br>
Level 1<br>
172 Flinders St<br>
(just opposite Federation Square)<br>
Map: <a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/6sa7l8" target="_blank">http://preview.tinyurl.com/6sa7l8</a><br>
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and will start at 6:30pm. Please arrive early/on time or have a mobile phone with you from which you can call the number on the door to be let in.<br>
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The idea is that we're going to take a few modules from the top 100 fail list that Adam Kennedy has put together and see if we can fix any of the bugs. The list can be found at:<br>
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<a href="http://ali.as/top100/" target="_blank">http://ali.as/top100/</a> (see the FAIL 100 tab)<br>
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Click the module name to go through to the cpan distribution page and then to the testers reports to see what kinds of tests are failing and on what version of Perl and on what operating systems. The bugs we are able to fix depends on us being able to reproduce them. :)<br>
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I suggest that we work in teams of 2-4 people so that we can share our knowledge of testing and debugging. If you have a particular module from that list that you'd like to try to work on, please nominate the following:<br>
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Module name<br>
Module version<br>
Platform<br>
Perl version<br>
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in a reply to the group. If the author has a code repository it would be cool to note that too.<br>
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At the end of the meeting we'll assess how well we did and nominate people from each group to handle creating any patches and submitting them to RT or whatever the author prefers.<br>
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All the best,<br>
<br>
J<br>
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