Pizza Bugs and Fun October 17, 2014

A Joomla! Pizza, Bugs and Fun event is scheduled for Friday, October 17, 2014. The event is global for virtual participants (both businesses and individuals), with local venues wherever they are organized. The key goal is to fix as many Joomla 3 and Joomla 2.5 bugs as possible.

See the section General Instructions below for instructions.

This wiki will be used as the central resource for coordinating efforts and accumulating results from this event.

Follow @JoomlaBugSquad on Twitter for updates during PBF and some social fun. The Twitter' hash tag is #JoomlaPBF.

Goals

• Bugs : We will be working through the CMS Issue Tracker where there are bug reports needing patches and/or testing.
• Documentation : If you want to help out writing documentation, you're also more than welcome. See the Documentation Details below for suggestions.

Organization, logistics and communications

Communication

See the Chat section.

Training Sessions

There will be an optional webinar training session on 16 October, 2014 at 15:00 UTC. We'll post the link here on Wednesday the 15th.

Also, on 16 October, 2014, the chat will be open for a Q&A and for help getting started. We'll post the link here on Wednesday the 15th.

Recognition

We've dubbed the event as a Business PBF, since it's the second PBF on a weekday (Friday) and we'd like to get more business involved. We've created badges that you can use on your sites to spread awareness of the event and get recognition for your participation: http://developer.joomla.org/pbf

Furthermore, we'd like to give you more recognition and highlight your pledge of participation by placing your logo and a link to your site on the landing page: http://developer.joomla.org/pbf

There are four participations levels: Epic, Platinum, Gold, and Silver. Platinum is for 10 hours or more pledged to the event. Gold is four hours or more pledged. Silver is pledged to participate in the event. And Epic for 100+ hours pledged!

So, for example, if Company ABC had five of their developers for two hours, then they could use the Platinum badge and have their logo (and link) in the platinum area on the landing page.

The hours you choose to pledge towards the event is totally up to you as an individual or business. As a bonus, if you write a blog post about the event, you can count it as 30 minutes towards your pledge. So if you pledged 5 hours and write a blog post, you'd be helping at the event for 4.5 hours.

Finally, on the day of the event, come and go as you'd like and fulfill your pledged hours. You can help with testing bug fixes, reporting bugs, coding bug fixes, etc. Most of all, enjoy every minute! Have fun, enjoy the fellowship, learn, and make Joomla better for you, your business, your clients, and your friends.

General Instructions

These instructions may change as we get closer to the event.

Task List

We have a list of suggested items available to work on. They range from very easy to intermediate difficulty. However, you're not just limited to this list and using the below process you can test/code for any items:

If you want to test bug fixes (i.e. patches)

• Look for issues with a status of Pending. We want at least 2 testers and more on complex issues, so you can test what others have tested already.
• Use the CMS Issue Tracker as usual, which means you can use the Joomla Patch Tester.
• Most of the issues should have test instructions with them.
• Once you have tested, add comments to the tracker on your results. Start your comment with @test so you will get counted in the stats as a tester. If the test is successful check of a successful text box.
• Note: You don't have to delete the installation folder when you are using the development version of Joomla. This allows you to reinstall just by deleting the configuration.php file.
• Note: See the FAQ on how to apply a Git pull request.

Helpful Documentation

• Component Patchtester for Testers - We'd recommend beginners to use the Joomla Patch Tester

If you want to code bug fixes

• Use the CMS Issue Tracker as usual, looking for the issues with a status of Confirmed.
• Send in a pull request (PR). Add testing instructions if they don't already exist.

  Helpful documentation

• Component Patchtester for Testers
• Git for Testers and Trackers
• Using the Github UI to Make Pull Requests - this is the easiest way to submit simple pull requests
• Git for Coders
• Working with git and github/My first pull request
• Secure coding guidelines
• Development Best Practices
• Joomla! Pizza Bugs and Fun 2014 pre-event Seminar

If you want to work on Documentation

• To edit this Documentation Wiki, you will need a user account on the wiki. If you don't already have one, you may register on Special:UserLogin. You only need a valid email address to register. After confirming your email address you will have immediate permission to edit any page except for a few that are protected because they are high profile spam targets.
• Important! - You should review the Wiki policy and our use of Abuse filters for new users.
• Get your user account a few days before and make sure that you are able to sign in since the automatic authorization system can lock some people out.
• If you'd like something to be edited, but you're not sure what to write exactly, use talk pages to add comments to pages.
• During the PBF, several experienced Wiki editors will be available in the chat to help you.

Helping with Documentation

Start here for information about helping with documentation during this PBF.

Pizza

We are offering pizza (or any comparable locally popular main course) and soda for pre-registered groups. We are not setting a specific maximum, but please don’t go crazy with it. Get enough so there’s plenty for everyone, but not a week’s worth of pizza and soda leftovers for everyone. Contact Nick Savov (nick.savov[at]community.joomla[dot]org , replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .) before the event to register and get details.

Locations

If you want to get people together and have a venue to share, please add it below. Share as much as possible details like exact location, url for more information about the venue, ways to register, date and time the venue is available etc.

If you set up a location please send contact information to Nick Savov (nick.savov[at]community.joomla[dot]org , replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .). Feel free to contact him with any questions.

Virtual

The event is global and across all timezones on October 17th, 2014 (48 hours total). You can come and go as you'd like and fulfill your pledged hours. You can help with testing bug fixes, reporting bugs, coding bug fixes, etc. Most of all, enjoy every minute! Have fun, enjoy the community, learn, and make Joomla better for you, your business, your clients, and your friends.

There are also some physical venues... see below.

Twitter

Follow @JoomlaBugSquad on Twitter for updates during PBF and some social fun. The Twitter' hash tag is #JoomlaPBF.

Chat

We have a dedicated chat for the PBF event at https://joomla.slack.com/messages/pbf/

All registrants manually get emailed an invite link soon after they complete the pledge form. If you have a team, please email nick.savov[.at.]community.joomla.org with a list of your team members emails, so that invites can be sent to them.

Europe

Netherlands

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun in Enschede, The Netherlands
Date: Friday, October 17, from 10:30 - 18:00
Location: de Bibliotheek, Pijpenstraat 15, 7511 GM Enschede
To attend, please add yourself to: http://www.joomlacommunity.eu/joomla-gebruikersgroepen/details/483.html

France

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun à Lyon, France
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: We're open all day long so people can come and go
Location: Acyba - Hikari Software, 110 Avenue Barthélémy Buyer, 69009 Lyon
To attend or for more information, please email nicolas[.at.]hikashop.com

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun à Toulouse, France
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: We're open all day long so people can come and go
Location: Agence Com'3elles, Immeuble Anadyr, 108 route d'Espagne, 31100 Toulouse
To attend or for more information, please email celine.robert[.at.]@com3elles.com

Denmark

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun in Denmark
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 10:00am-6:00pm
Location: redWEB HQ, Blangstedgårdsvej 1, 5220 Odense SØ
To attend, please write to: pbf[.at.]redweb.dk

Bulgaria

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun in Bulgaria
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 9:00-15:00
Location: SiteGround at Racho Petkov Kazandjiata 8, Sofia
To attend, please email: events[.at.]siteground.com

North America

South America

Asia/Pacific

India

Joomla Pizza, Bugs & Fun in Pune, India
Date: Saturday, October 18, from 15:00 to 22:00
Location: Techjoomla/ Tekdi Technologies Offices, Office No.6, Silver Fern Building. Karve Road. Opposite Kothrud Bus Stand & Above Canara Bank., Pune

Africa

Middle East

Registration

For write access to this wiki

To get write access to this wiki you will need to register here first. Please be aware that the registration process requires a valid email address. This is the same login for updating Joomla documentation.

At a physical location

If you wish to be present at one of the physical locations listed above then you must register in advance because space most likely is limited. Registrations are the responsibility of the individual location organizers and you should click on the appropriate link above for more information.

Taking bugs, tasks and pizza

Please check the Organization, logistics and communications section for details on how to get involved in working on tasks.

Requirements

• All code must be made available under the General Public Licence version 2.
• All documentation contributions must be made available under the Joomla! Electronic Documentation License. Further information on the JEDL is available in the JEDL Frequently Asked Questions
• No advertising or self-promotion will be allowed. This includes back links to your website or anyone else's. The one exception is that if you have made a contribution then feel free to add your name and an optional link to your website to the Contributors List
• All contributions must be in English. Note that the official language of the Joomla! project is British English.

FAQ

Q: Where is the code for Joomla?

A: The current Joomla code can be found on GitHub.

• GitHub - https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Q: Which one is 3.3?

A: On GitHub, it is the staging branch: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Q: Which one is 2.5?

A: On GitHub, it is the 2.5.x branch: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/tree/2.5.x

Q: How do I apply a Git pull request?

A: Use the Joomla Patch Tester

Contributors

Pizza Bugs and Fun October 17, 2014/Contributors List