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Open Source Comes to Campus/Newcomer Tasks/Issue Tracker Cleaning

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Overview

Sometimes communities need help handling all the issues that have been reported. They need to know whether bugs can be reproduced and whether patches/pull requests work as intended. You can help them out by a) reproducing bugs and b) reviewing patches! Along the way, you'll learn a lot about the project.

There are two main types of task you can choose to work on: reproducing bugs, and reviewing patches. Find out how to do each of these tasks below.

Before you begin, you will need to pick a project to contribute to. To do this, try our Finding a Project activity.

Reproducing Bugs

To find bugs to reproduce, look through the issue tracker. You may want to filter the issues you see so that you're only looking for "new", "unconfirmed" or "open" issues. )Some projects use different terminology, so you may want to ask a mentor to help you figure out what to filter for.) You're looking for issues where a problem has been reported and there are either no comments, or comments requesting that someone verify the bug.

Once you've found a bug report, you'll want to try to reproduce it. You will find yourself in one of three scenarios:

  • There was not enough information in the original report for you to attempt to reproduce it.
  • There was enough information for you to attempt to reproduce the bug, and you reproduced it.
  • There was enough information for you to attempt to reproduce the bug, and but you did not reproduce it.
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