Re: Finding and fixing Perl 6 bugs
On 2016-02-03 06:47:23 IRST, Tom Browder wrote: > Perl 5 (and I believe 6) uses the weird (to me) rt.perl.org bug system and > I have so far found no instructions on how to use it. There is the program > perlbug for Perl 5 but no reference I can find on using it for Perl 6. I > have an account on rt.perl.bug but cannot find anything other than my > non-existent entries. There is a public interface so ordinary users can > see bugs but apparently not do anything about it. For Rakudo bugs send an email to rakudo...@perl.org http://rakudo.org/how-to-help/ > The various Perl 6 git repos all have their own issue trackers but so far I > find no similarity between issue numbers on git and git bug report > e-mails. For example, see those for the ecosystem. Git shows 2 issues > open with #136 and #53, but e-mails show something else. For anything other than Rakudo you can open an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/perl6 The other issue numbers you mentioned are probably pull requests. For example, https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
Re: Finding and fixing Perl 6 bugs
AFAICT we usually recommend people report bugs via mail to rakudo...@perl.org Here's the places i could find (by targeted search, of course) that tell people to do it like that: - http://perl6.org/getting-started/ in the "side track", - http://rakudo.org/tickets/ - rakudo.org -> "bug tracker", - http://rakudo.org/how-to-help/ - rakudo.org -> "how to help" Clearly, none of these places are optimal. rakudo.org used to be much more important and user-facing before the recent-ish changes to perl6.org to make it so much more useful and prettier to look at, too. I've opened a ticket in the perl6-user-experience repository for this: https://github.com/perl6/user-experience/issues/8 Thank you for your time! - Timo
Finding and fixing Perl 6 bugs
This page: http://perl6.org/getting-started/involved references finding and fixing bugs but it doesn't point to further help. At the very least I believe there should be on that page a list of all the Perl 6 projects and what address to send bug reports to. Also a consolidated list of preferred subject tags to help categorize bugs would probably help everyone. Perl 5 (and I believe 6) uses the weird (to me) rt.perl.org bug system and I have so far found no instructions on how to use it. There is the program perlbug for Perl 5 but no reference I can find on using it for Perl 6. I have an account on rt.perl.bug but cannot find anything other than my non-existent entries. There is a public interface so ordinary users can see bugs but apparently not do anything about it. The various Perl 6 git repos all have their own issue trackers but so far I find no similarity between issue numbers on git and git bug report e-mails. For example, see those for the ecosystem. Git shows 2 issues open with #136 and #53, but e-mails show something else. So my question is: what is the correct procedure for one to report a bug, check its status, and comment on it during its life cycle? (Bugzilla makes the process pretty easy, and it's written in Perl, too!) Thanks for your patience with my rant. Cheers! -Tom
