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MOLD Removal SQUASHathon

Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev edited this page Dec 3, 2017 · 9 revisions

Tickets that were not updated in more than a year or so are automatically tagged with MOLD tag.

You can see the list of tickets like this here:

The goal of this type of squashathon is to go through all of these tickets and update them in a way that will remove the tag. Here are some ideas on what can be done with such tickets:

  • Issue is still reproducible? Leaving a comment saying that it is still relevant, include the output of perl6 --version, and other useful info if you have any.
  • Issue no longer reproducible? Leave a comment saying that it was resolved, mark the ticket as testneeded (or resolved if you are able to find any tests for that particular issue), include the output of perl6 --version, try to use the bots to figure out when it was fixed exactly (ask on #perl6 freenode channel for more info on how to do that).
  • For tickets that have “Roast rakudo skip/todo test” in their title, look at the mentioned test and think if the issue (or the test) is still relevant, update the ticket accordingly. Look for more descriptive tickets about the same issue (dups), and merge the tickets accordingly.
  • In other cases feel free to do something else: resolve, split, move, retag, link, leave your opinion, ask for clarification, discuss with others, etc.

If you are a rakudo dev, then another thing to look at is old rakudo pull requests.

This type of squashathon involves working with RT, possibly interacting with bots and hacking on Rakudo. See Rakudo SQUASHathon Guide for more info on these topics.