Hi all
I apologise for spamming both lists with this and also having blogged
first, I intended then all to go at the same time :-). We (Lukas, Scott,
Pierre and others ) have been talking about this a little on IRC and I
updated the QA web pages a while ago. We thought it was time to be a bit
more public. I have appended a copy of my my blog entry below.
As far as mentors go, I've said 'let me know on the IRC channels if you
can help' - what I probably meant was watch out because we'll be
pestering you for help on those channels :-). We'll also be putting up a
list of things to do on the TestFest wiki
(http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest), help with any of them will earn
undying gratitude and your choice of beverage when I next see you.
PHP TestFest 2009
It's time to start getting the 2009 PHP TestFest underway. The TestFest
is a worldwide event in which PHP user groups and individuals contribute
to PHP by writing tests for PHP. It's a great way to contribute to one
of the most successful open source projects there has ever been, it's
also pretty cool to see your name in the the source distribution for
code that's running on over 20 million web domains.
So how does it work?
User groups can register by sending a mail to php-qa@lists.php.net. In
the mail we'd like you to pick an date for your event (somewhere between
April 1st and June 30th), it would be great if you could let us have the
name and e-mail for the primary contact too. As these arrive on the QA
list, someone (probably me) will transfer them to the TestFest wiki
http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest. We will help you to work out what
sort of event to run and how to organise it. Individuals can register
for the TestFest too, just send a mail to the php-qa@lists.php.net.
User groups (or individuals) can pick areas in which they'd like to
write tests, this might be something you know quite well already, or
maybe something new you'd like to know about. For example, the London
PHP group picked the dom extension last year. I didn't know much about
that when we started but I did when we finished!
What do we need?
A bit of infrastructure! Scott MacVicar is putting together an SVN
repository for tests so that contributors will be able to commit tests
directly. He's still working on how access control will work....more on
this later.
Sponsors! We have one offer of ElePHPants. We'll do the same as we did
last year and hold a draw at the end of the TestFest. Anyone who
contributes a test will have a chance to win one. Of course, the more
you contribute the higher your chances will be!
Mentors, mentors and more mentors! We need internals developers who know
how to write tests, have karma in cvs.php.net and who can review tests
and commit them. Again - if you can help with this send a note to the
php-qa@lists.php.net or let me know on IRC (efnet #php.pecl or freenode
#phptestfest, #phpwomen).
For more information on PHP's TestFest have a look here
http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest and here <http://qa.php.net/testfest.php