Titile: Hot to Contribute to Pharo Where? PharoDays 2015, Lille, France. Speaker: Marcus Denker

1. How to Contribute
to Pharo

2. What?

3. Bug Reports

4. Cleanups

5. Features

6. Issue Tracker
• https://pharo.fogbugz.com
• Need an account (not perfect, we know)

7. Life of an Issue
• Open a new one
• “Work needed”
• Fixed (review needed)
• Fixed (checked by the monkey)
• Fixed (to be integrated)
• Fixed (integrated) ==> CLOSE

8. You can Help!
• report problems
• add “how to reproduce” to existing
• read and summarize discussions
• Find duplicates
• ask others to take action

9. You can Help 2
• Test fixes: Does it fix the bug?
• Review fixes: Does the code look ok?
• Fix issues yourself.
• You can even team up with someone!

10. A lot of work...
• The issue tracker needs eyeballs every day
• We have 675 open issue
• But we CLOSED 11878
• 1983 in 1 year >5 PER DAY!

11. But it pays off..
• Pharo got much more stable over the years
• People are more productive
• Feedback loop: acceleration of
improvement

12. DEMO: Issue report

13. DEMO: Fixing an Issue

14. DEMO: CodeCritics