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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2019-11-26 19:02:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-11-26 17:54:20 -0800 |
| commit | b4285b0dabe98fc37362ed5367ba070593c8cbbc (patch) | |
| tree | cf396f488d63e2cac3e838345fdf568aa2d528c8 /Porting/todo.pod | |
| parent | 5225e517f9c17c6c8221540e7d29bc1cf6e651c1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b4285b0dabe98fc37362ed5367ba070593c8cbbc.tar.gz | |
Update Porting documents to reference GitHub issues
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diff --git a/Porting/todo.pod b/Porting/todo.pod index 4fcf4cc782..df78df9957 100644 --- a/Porting/todo.pod +++ b/Porting/todo.pod @@ -25,17 +25,18 @@ programming languages offer you 1 line of immortality? =head1 Tasks that only need Perl knowledge -=head2 Classify bug tickets by type +=head2 Label bug tickets by type -Known bugs in Perl are tracked by L<https://rt.perl.org/> (which also -includes Perl 6). A summary can be found at -L<https://rt.perl.org/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html>. -It shows bugs classified by "type". However, the type of many of the -bugs is "unknown". This greatly lowers the chances of them getting +Known bugs in Perl are tracked by L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. +It shows bugs and can be filtered by assigned labels. However, many are +L<unlabeled|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+no%3Alabel> +or have the label L<"Needs Triage"|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Needs+Triage%22>. +This greatly lowers the chances of them getting fixed, as the number of open bugs is overwhelming -- too many to wade through for someone to try to find the bugs in the parts of Perl that s/he knows well enough to try to fix. This task involves -going through these bugs and classifying them into one or more types. +going through these bugs and assigning one or more labels, and removing the +"Needs Triage" label if present. =head2 Ongoing: investigate new bug reports @@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ a quick investigation to see if it is a real problem, and to reply to the poster about it, asking for example code that reproduces the problem. Such code should be added to the test suite as TODO tests, and the ticket should be classified by type. To get started on this task, -look at the tickets that are marked as "New Issues" in -L<https://rt.perl.org/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html>. +look at the issues with no comments at +L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+comments%3A0>. =head2 Migrate t/ from custom TAP generation |