Actually, I would encourage testing closed issues, or at least those issues that were resolved without creating a test data set that demonstrates both the bug and the fix, and maintains non-regression.
I have noticed a number of issues "fixed" without adding such tests, which should be the norm, not the exception. G. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Pascal Sancho <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > FOP is an open source project, and everybody can contribute in his own > way, so you can reopen closed issues as you want if needed, and submit > patches as you want. > > That said, IMHO, apart in a company quality context, testing closed > issues will not help very much (typically, an issue is closed after > developer's checks, and it is often monitored by the opener who reopen > it if needed) > But: > you can check old opened issues against FOP TRUNK, since there is no > systematic checks for opened issues after each commit. > You can find fixed issues that haven't been closed. > > Le 01/05/2011 02:25, darshan a écrit : > > Dear All, > > > > I am a post graduate student at the Australian National University > > taking a course on Free and Open Source Software Development. Part of > > the course requirement is to study an open source project of my choice, > > make a contribution and write a report by the end of May 2011. > > > > I have been going through the fop site and documents and from the 'How > > you can help' topic on the page > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/index.html > > I thought the best way I could contribute is by testing newly-closed > > issues to make sure they are truly closed. By doing this I can gradually > > understand how the system works and hopefully start make more > > contributions like submitting bug reports and patches. > > > > Can I start from the most recent fix form the page > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Code_FOP%20Trunk ? please > > guide me as to what would be the best way of doing it and also I would > > be really glad if you could suggest me any other way to contribute that > > would help the project better. > > > > Best regards, > > Darshan Pradhan > > [email protected] > > -- > Pascal >
