Bugs & Fun @Home

Bugs and Fun @home is an event where Joomla enthusiasts meet online to improve Joomla. This is not only for improving the code of Joomla but also the documentation and translation. It is an online event for everybody to come, have fun and meet fellow Joomlers.

The idea behind organizing Bugs and Fun @home events is to achieve these goals:

• Reduce the number of open issues
• Get Joomla tested on different environments
• Get more people interested in testing issues at home
• Meet fellow Joomlers online
• Have fun and learn in a friendly environment

Origin

The idea for Bugs & Fun @home came about when most of Europe was in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. It came out of a discussion in a Production team meeting. The first incarnation was Pizza Bugs & Fun without the Pizza And the first online meeting Saturday 4th April. It is held weekly every Saturday. Its name was changed to Bugs & Fun @Home. Details were on a spreadsheet until this article was written.

Meeting rooms

There are meeting rooms provided every week. The current rooms are here:

Early Room UTC

Zoom on Demand
Saturdays in July
Though we don't have a formal Zoom room running this weekend for the Early Room, say hi in the RingCentral Bugs & Fun at Home channel, and a zoom on demand can be spun up if there's enough interest. Alternatively, reach out to Patrick Jackson if you're not on RingCentral.

Afternoon Room UTC

Zoom on Request
Zoom Meeting on request from 13:00 - 15:00 UTC Saturday July 11th
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87574501273?pwd=MFJ2aXNodktlRGhIdWQ0TXNnd2NLQT09
Meeting ID: 875 7450 1273
Password: 566206

Google Meet on Request
Google Meet rooms are also available for each BFH on request if you prefer it to Zoom.
13:00 - 15:00 UTC https://meet.google.com/ywv-ncoj-ubk
Dial-in: (GB) +44 20 3956 9352 PIN: 363 609 351#
To complete the day, an additional Meet link is also added later in the day.

Bugs & Fun Activities List

The types of activity are split into three levels - Explorer, Adventurer and Conqueror. You can access the current list of tasks being looked at in this Google Sheet.

Explorer

Writing, reviewing, updating and improving current documents. Translating documents into different languages.
The full list is currently on this sheet Explorer tab

Adventurer

Testing patches
This is where we test patches and using the chat feature provided on every Bugs & Fun @Home we can check with others online for help in conducting the tests and collaborate with others to get the second tester needed to fulfil the testing requirements. At the moment it is still in this spreadsheet tab Adventurer tab We are looking to move this to tags in GitHub

Conqueror

Creating pull requests
This is where you are encouraged to make your own pull requests. Others can then help to test the pull request and if it passes it may make it into the core of Joomla. The list is currently held on this spreadsheet Conqueror tab

Resources

The following resources are available to help you to get the various jobs done.

Joomla Docs

Joomla! Code Contributors

Joomla on GitHub

github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Joomla Issues on GitHub

github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues

Pizza bugs and fun

pizza-bugs-fun.com

Issue tracker

issues.joomla.org

Patch testing article

Testing Jooma! patches

Patchtester 4 for Joomla 4 download

github.com/joomla-extensions/patchtester/releases/tag/4.0.0-rc2

Patchtester 3 for Joomla 3 download

github.com/joomla-extensions/patchtester/releases/tag/3.0.0.rc

Prebuilt Packages

Prebuild packages

Joomla Nightly Builds

developer.joomla.org/nightly-builds.html

Setting up your J4 Environment

Setting Up Your Local Environment

Joomla_4.0.0-beta2-dev-Development-Full_Package

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Next Joomla 3 release candidate

github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/tree/3.9.19-rc

Testing sheet for release candidates

CMS Release Checksheet (GoogleDocs)