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New bughuntday planning: symfony framework

Posted Thu, 12/11/2008 - 13:01 by admin

The last bughuntday was quite a huge success, and we're already looking forward to organizing the next edition of squashing PHP bugs! We don't have too much details yet, but this time, the framework of choice will be Symfony:

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5.
It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise.

Symfony is one of the more popular frameworks, but nevertheless has its own share of bugs, which you can find on their trac system. To get you started, symfony even has a wiki page dedicated to bug reporting!

If you're interested in attending the next bughuntday, please keep an eye on this website (or subscribe to the RSS feed). We'll add information as soon as possible and give you the possibility to RSVP to the event.
Happy PHP'ing!

Zend Framework Bughuntday review

Posted Thu, 12/11/2008 - 12:33 by felixdv

This Saturday user groups of the Netherlands (phpGG) and Belgium (PHPBelgium) organized Bughuntday at Best Western hotel "De Goderie" in Roosendaal (the Netherlands). Bughuntday is a whole day developers can come together to start fixing bugs for open-source frameworks and libraries. This Saturday we started these series with Zend Framework, a hugely adopted PHP framework within enterprise and professional web application development.

Core contributor Juriën Stutterheim gave a short presentation on what was the idea behind this event and how people should process the bugs.

2008 11 08 Bughuntday

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There's also a video of the whole presentation, the demo given by Juriën and the moment of giving away prizes. You can download it from my public idisk or from the mirror provided by Remi Woler.

With a turn up of 25 to 30 people we could call this day a success on bringing attention to the need of fixing bugs of huge frameworks. Although no statistics are yet available, I think only a handful of bugs were actually fixed that day. Not much compared to the turn up, but non the less better then none at all.

Bad internet connection, not enough communication in advance about computer configurations and so on were the main causes that this day resulted in only a few bugs fixed. But we as organizers have learned our lessons and we will surely take these issues into consideration when we're organizing the next Bughuntday.

We would like to everyone that participated and special thanks to our sponsors who made this day possible.

I personally want to thank Juriën for being our guest speaker (we will get you a Zend Framework T-Shirt!).

Special thanks also to Ralph Schindler of the Zend Framework core team, who had to be stand-by on those wee early hours just to assist us solving issues related to SVN access, wiki accounts and other administrative related issues.

And finaly great gratitude goes out to Wil Sinclair and Matthew Weier O'Phinney of the Zend Framework core team with who'm we worked out a simple idea on ZendCon08 into a genuine event. Thank you guys.

    Be sure to check out the pictures on flickr.com (tagged #bughuntday), as they are great memories of this mentionable event.

    Bughuntday planning has started!

    Posted Wed, 10/15/2008 - 12:50 by felixdv

    Supporting open-source projects can be done by contributing code, writing or translating manuals or by fixing bugs. For this event, PHPBelgium has decided to focus on the latter and organizes several BugHuntDays for frameworks and libraries, together with the Dutch PHP community phpGG.

    The purpose of such a BugHuntDay is to introduce known and lesser known frameworks and libraries to our members. On each BugHuntDay, a core developer will be available to give a small presentation about the framework, and how a bug should be fixed according to the standards of that framework or library. After the presentation, it's up to the attendees to fix bugs, learning the framework from the inside out. The one who contributes the most bug fixes, will receive the honor and a little prize.

    A few benefits:

    • supporting the open-source community
    • learning a new framework
    • learning how to fix bugs
    • learning how to test code
    • meet other PHP enthusiasts

    Come and join us at 11am to 6pm on our first BugHuntDay on Saturday, November 8 at Hotel Goderie, Roosendaal, NL. Our first framework is Zend Framework, the most adopted framework in enterprise and web application development. Now is your chance to make it even better!

    If you'd like to attend this PHP bughunting event, please sign up here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1230795