On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: > The second issue is that we're doing a bad job at handling bug reports, > (https://bugs.php.net/stats.php) there are only very few guys who go > through reports and handle those. This simply is a lot of work affecting > areas which reviewers probably don't really know. For helping there when > doesn't have to be a code contributor i.e. requinix afaik never proposed > a patch (sorry if I missed it!) but does a very good job answering to > bug reports. Thanks. While I know C fairly well and don't have a problem reading the PHP source, I wouldn't trust myself to write a patch for anything more than a trivial fix :(
And I figure there are a decent number of people like me too: they may not be able to contribute to the source but they have been working with PHP for years, know it well, and would be able to help triage bugs. The main problem that I've heard is that it's not easy to figure out what they can do without a php.net account; I generally tell them that they can ask for more details or backtraces when needed, test on their own systems, make documentation patches in the DOE, even trudge through the old bug reports if they're really bored (I don't mind the few clicks to close bugs if someone else spends the time to find them!). -Damian/requinix -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
