The Zend Developer Zone has posted the announcement of this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days coming up on the 18th and 19th of February Thursday and Friday of this week).

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.

There's a new post to the Zend Developer Zone about this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days happening at the end of this week - the 17th and 18th of December.

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.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney has posted the results of the latest Bug Hunt Days for the Zend Framework that happened back on November 19th and 20th. More than 120 issues were closed out and several made it into that next release of the framework.

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)

On the Symfony blog there's a new post from Stefan Koopmanschap with the results of their just-passed Bug Hunt Day for the Symfony framework as put on by the PHPBenelux user group.

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.

Stefan Koopmanschap has posted a reminder for all of those interested in the next Symfony BugHuntDay - the next one is just around the corner on November 14th.

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!

The Symfony project has officially announced their own BugHuntDay as a part of the phpBenelux user group targeted just towards the Symfony framework.

On Saturday November 14th from 10.00 until 17.00 you are welcome to join Fabien Potencier, Fabian Lange, Stefan Koopmanschap and the Benelux PHP community in Herentals in Belgium to help improve symfony, learn from each other, and of course have some fun. During the day you will first of all learn how to contribute to symfony by finding and fixing bugs, after which you will actually sit down and, coached by Fabien Potencier, Fabian Lange, Stefan Koopmanschap and of course each other, you will be able to actually pick some bugs and start fixing them.

You can find out more about the event on the symfony blog and more on the location here.

The Zend Developer Zone has announced the start of October's Bug Hunt Day for the Zend Framework:

As reported last month, Zend Framework has started hosting a monthly "bug hunt": an effort to resolve issues against the framework. This month's bug hunt is today and tomorrow. The individual who helps resolve or assist in resolving the most issues during each month's bug hunt days will receive a Zend Framework t-shirt! Last month's winner was Padraic Brady.

Matthew includes a few reasons to help out - helping ZF helps you (and your projects), adding value to the framework and the development of good QA skills for creating unit tests and documentation. If you'd like more information on how to participate, check out this page of the Zend Framework wiki or just come over to Freenode's #zftalk.dev IRC channel and get involved!

In a new post to his blog Michelangelo van Dam reminds developers everywhere about the Zend Framework "Bug Hunt Day" effort to make the framework an even better tool to develop applications.

Last week Thursday the start was given to Zend Framework's Bughuntday and it turned out to be a huge success, as mentioned by Chief Architect Matthew Weier O'Phinney on Zend's DevZone website. Over a hunderd bugs were squashed leading up to the release of Zend Framework 1.9.3.

He talks a bit about what the goal of the Bug Hunt Days are all about and a few ways you can help by closing out some of the bugs marked open in the Issue Tracker.

Michelangelo van Dam has posted his summary of the recent BugHuntDay that happened in Roosendaal (the Netherlands) this past weekend:

Bughuntday is a whole day developers can come together to start fixing bugs for open-source frameworks and libraries. This Saturday we started these series with Zend Framework, a hugely adopted PHP framework within enterprise and professional web application development.

He also includes the slides from the presentation and a video of Jurien Stutterheim's talk introducing everyone to testing and the Zend Framework. There's pictures of the event on Flickr too.

Check here for an updated video from the event.

This past weekend the Belgian PHP usergroup gathered together for a "bug hunt day" to find and fix as many problems as they could in the Zend Framework. Stefan Koopmanschap was there and has posted about his experiences.

Yesterday was the first BugHuntDay that our dutch PHP usergroup organized together with the Belgian usergroup. Somewhere between 25 and 30 people (I forgot to do an actual headcount) came together in Roosendaal to work on fixing bugs in Zend Framework.

He recounts their arrival (he and their speaker Jurrien), his talk on the structure of the framework and how to test it and some of the bugs that he worked on. Everyone that attended also received an elePHPant for their contributions. Other "goodies" like Zend t-shirts and a coupon for a free Zend Certification Exam we're passed out too.