For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of March (the 24th, 25th and 26th 2011), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

He mentions the winners of last month's event - Benoit Durand and Ramon Henrique Ornelas - and a link to their guide on how you can get started and get involved with this month's event (starting with getting a CLA on file).

010 closed out on a pretty good note for the Zend Framework developer community. The december bug-hunt closed out with a solid 37 issues (as of Jan. 12, 2011). [...] All in all, 2010 was a fantastic year. With the 10 monthly hunts we put on (every month minus January and March), we closed nearly 500 issues in those 2-3 days on that third week of the month. Our best month was November where we closed around 110 issues. Naturally some months were better than others, but there was never a disappointing turnout.

He gives credit to several of the contributors that have given their time over the months including Ramon H. Ornelas how recieved a grand price of a full license for Zend's Studio 8 product.

In just 3 short days, contributors managed to resolve exactly 111 issues. Fitting though, if you think about it, since this is the 1.11 branch for Zend Framework: 111 issues, 1.11 branch release... I'd like to say we planned it that way, but alas, it was merely coincidental the way these numbers worked out.

The champion for this month's event is Ryan Mauger (Bittarman) who closed a huge 28 issues out of the 111 himself. He also points out the work that Ramon Henrique Ornelas has done in the past months to help things move towards the Zend Framework 2.0 mark.

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of November (the 18th, 19th and 20th 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

This bug hunt is a particularly important one since they've released the final release branch for the 1.x series. They want things to be "rock solid" and are encouraging even more testers to come and help out. To help out, you'll need a CLA on file and you can read their guide on how to get started.

As has become tradition after 2008 (Zend Framework) and 2009 (symfony), we again organize a PHPBenelux BugHuntDay in November this year. We even decided to make the BugHuntDay a bit bigger. On Saturday November 27th, we will be focusing not on one but on two projects! We will focus on Zend Framework for the framework-heads, and on the Joind.in codebase for the community-heads.

Developers wishing to work on the code base for either project are welcome, whether you're familiar with the frameworks involved or not (Joind.in uses CodeIgniter). If you're planning on attending, sign up and mark yourself as attending on this Joind.in event.

This upcoming Thursday and Friday, 18-19 February 2010, Zend Framework will host its fifth monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. Past events have netted over 100 issue closures over each two-day period; let's keep up the momentum!

If you've never taken part in one of their Bug Hunt Day events, it's easy to get started. You'll need to have a CLA with Zend to be able to contribute your bug fixes back to the project, but the rest is all about searching out those issues and figuring out the root cause. For those that would like to be a bit more interactive, there's also a channel on Freenode (IRC) where you can get some help - #zftalk.dev.

This upcoming Thursday and Friday, 17-18 December 2009, Zend Framework will host its fourth monthly bug hunt. Each month, the community organizes to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. Past events have netted over 100 issue closures over each two-day period; let's keep up the momentum!

To participate all you need to do is have signed a CLA so you can work with the code and then hang out Friday and Saturday in the #zftalk.dev channel on the Freenode IRC network and get to finding those bugs. You can find out more information on the event on the Zend Framework wiki.

We had more than 25 contributors involved during the two days of the official hunt, including several folks new to the project. Personally, I was able to get to only 2 of more than a half-dozen issues I'd selected to work on as I spent the rest of the time reviewing patches submitted via the tracker; I'd like to see this trend continue in the future, as the goal is to get an army of experienced volunteers helping to maintain the framework!

Several developers were thanked for their efforts including Padraic Brady, Michael Perraud and Thomas Weidner. If you didn't get a chance to participate in this last Bug Hunt Day and want to contribute, wait for a bit - another one's coming up soon! (17th/18th of December)

Last saturday was the day that the PHPBenelux usergroup organized their annual BugHuntDay. This year, the focus was on symfony, which led to 4 core team members being there amongst the attendees of the day. The day was attended by 17 people in total who seemed excited to commit some time to supporting symfony, as well as a number of people in the IRC chatroom.

As far as the results, there were 28 tickets closed with a few others still in the process of being completed. Of the ones closed, 15 were "fixed", 5 were "wontfix" and 8 were verified in the version they were reported but have been fixed in a more recent release.

With the symfony BugHuntDay just around the corner next saturday 14th of november, it is time to have a look at what you can do to prepare yourself. Luckily, one of the PHPBenelux crew members, Thijs Feryn, has posted a tutorial on his weblog on what you can do to prepare for the BugHuntDay.

If you can't make it to the actual event, you can always follow along on the #symfony IRC channel on Freenode. If you're going to be attending in Herentals, though, be sure to add your name to the registration list as soon as possible!