2024-03-14_AMER.md

Welcome to the R Contributor Office Hour (AMER)!

2024-03-14

Useful links

• R Development Guide: https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/
• R's Bugzilla: https://bugs.r-project.org
• R Project Weblate server: https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project
• R sources - SVN repo: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
• GitHub mirror: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/
• GitHub Codespace (R Dev Container) https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env
• R-devel mailing list archives: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/, searchable GitHub repo: https://github.com/MichaelChirico/r-mailing-list-archive/tree/master/r-devel
• Minutes from previous office hours: https://github.com/r-devel/rcontribution/tree/main/office_hours
• Annotated list of bugs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhfPIJQXeKpydigMH79FKIkdHO9NxlBSB_bTRoCFnPY/edit#gid=0

Keeping in contact

Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_Contributors Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors Slack: https://contributor.r-project.org/slack

Facilitators

Heather Turner

Warm up

Please tell us a bit about yourself, following the template below:

Name: Heather Turner
Country I am currently in: UK
Something we could do or discuss together today:

Name: Zhian Kamvar
Country I am currently in: US
Something we could do or discuss together today: Bug spreadsheet/finding a bug to work on

Discussion

Finding bugs to work on

• Bug spreadsheet, also pinned to #getting-started channel on R Contributors Slack
  • Notes from bugs that have been reviewed e.g. in preparation from R Project Sprint
  • Zhian has been looking at it and is not sure about what categories mean
    • "patch welcome" - this means there has been a positive response from R Core, encouraging contributors to submit a patch.
• Looking at bugs on R's Bugzilla: https://bugs.r-project.org
  • bug importance - critical ones are in red, enhancements are in grey
  • can search for bugs by severity using advanced search
  • different ways that a "bug" is identified as a wishlist item
    • Bug reporters can pick the Wishlist component when reporting a bug and/or select "enhancement" as bug severity level
    • R Core can change the status of any bug to WISHLIST
  • bug severity
    • Also selected by bug reporters
    • Generally leave as "normal" unless fixing a typo or similar (then can select minor/trivial) or causing a crash or similar (then select major/critical/blocker)
• Zhian may contribute some content for the Navigating bugzilla section of the R Dev Guide
• Taking a look at https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18255 as has worked on tricky namespace issues before.