[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] BugZilla!

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

Hi -

I would concur with this. BioJava is volunteer based and requires people 
to volunteer before things happen.

In my experience bug reports get resolved most rapidly if the person 
reporting the bug can do as much of their own investigation as possible. 
Have a good look at the stack trace and try using a debugger. You can 
rapidly narrow down the underlying cause. Even if you are not confident 
about the best way to fix the problem, armed with all the relevant 
information someone more experienced will be able to tell you if you are 
on the right track.

Unit tests are also good here. For one thing they will set-up a situation 
to replicate your bug. They will also provide a way to make sure the bug 
doesn't happen again in future releases.  Finally, the more unit tests 
there are the more confident you can be that your proposed bug fix won't 
break anything else.

Helping fix stuff in BioJava will definitely improve you're programming 
skills and greatly increase your knowledge of how the API works so by 
helping others you are probably helping yourself more.

- Mark

biojava-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org wrote on 11/27/2008 12:04:56 AM:

> Hi all,
> 
> There's been a few new bugs reported on BugZilla recently. Whilst the
> development of the new BJ features is fun, it's really important to
> maintain the existing code and keep on top of the issues reported.
> 
> If there's anyone with a few minutes spare, or would like to learn
> BioJava and don't know where to start - then zapping a few virtual
> creepy crawlies is an excellent way to get involved and make a 
contribution.
> 
> Here's the list of the currently outstanding problems:
> 
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/buglist.cgi?
> product=BioJava&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
> 
> If you see one you think you can fix, or might like to try to
> investigate, go for it! All you have to do is assign the bug to yourself
> in order to take ownership of it so that people don't end up working on
> the same thing without knowing.
> 
> cheers,
> Richard
> 
> -- 
> Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
> Finance Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd
> M: +44 7500 438846 | E: holland at eaglegenomics.com
> http://www.eaglegenomics.com/
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