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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:19:57 +0200
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To: Miah Gregory <mace@darksilence.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Low hanging fruit / entry point for new developers to
 the core
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Miah Gregory <mace@darksilence.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> The recent suhosin 'discussions' and subsequent browsing of various
> mailing lists prompted me into looking at doing some core
> development/bug fixing/whatever, since I have a vested interest as a
> user.
>
> I had a look around the various php.net sites but didn't really find
> much in the way of guidelines to get involved, code wise, or suggestions
> as to low hanging fruit that wouldn't be too painful to start on. If
> someone could point me in the right direction it would be much
> appreciated.


It really depends on what you are looking for. Maintaining such list
is just to much work as most things do get fixed fairly quickly.
We do however have bunch of bug reports, of various quality and complexity..


All I can think of is:
https://wiki.php.net/ideas
https://bugs.php.net/random (and keep hitting the random link until
you find something you consider interesting)


> Would also be of use to know what automated (or otherwise) testing
> procedures are available for pre-commit checking?


compiling and running the tests with/without
 --enable-maintainer-zts
 --enable-debug
and running run-tests.php under valgrind (-m)

-Hannes