Python Bug Day

The morning was spent biking on the trail that loops around BWI airport, but in the afternoon I signed on to IRC for the Python Bug Day spearheaded by the Montreal user group.

I used the 'random issue' link on bugs.python.org heavily, and it worked really well because it showed me bugs that I wouldn't normally look at. Often it landed on bugs I could do nothing with, such as bugs for Windows or AIX or FreeBSD 4. Once I read the subject line, which was something like "cProfile doesn't support multiple thread stacks" and immediately whimpered in terror and hit 'random issue' again.

I trivially closed a few bugs that were already fixed or not actually bugs, found another patch that had been approved and could be committed (Antoine Pitrou did the actual commit), and inconclusively assessed a few patches.

Socializing on IRC was also fun. I wish we did bug days more frequently. Maybe I can nudge the DC Python group to have a weekend bug day in January or February.