Another Bugmash for the Record Books

237 contributions, 68 participants, and 32 commits all helped to make this May’s event a mashing success!

With over 68 participants all over the world, this Bugmash proved to be the most effective yet. For some, it was their first Rails contribution. For others, it was a competitive run for the top of the leaderboard. For everyone, it was a lot of fun! We hope you’ll join us next time.

Thanks to our sponsors and to everyone that hosted a meetup (love the pictures)!

We’ll announce prizewinners later this week.

A special thanks goes out to the core team for making themselves available to engage with the participants!

For the uninitiated, RailsBridge regularly facilitates BugMash events where all are welcome to contribute to Rails core. Everyone comes together to mash bugs found in the Rails Core Issue Tracker

Participants can help in 4 ways:

• Confirm that the bug can be reproduced
• If it can’t be reproduced, try to figure out what information would make it possible to reproduced
• If it can be reproduced, add the missing pieces: better repro instructions, a failing patch, and/or a patch that applies cleanly to the current Rails source
• Bring promising tickets to the attention of the Core team
• All are welcome to participate. Even if you’re new to Rails, you can lend a helping hand and learn some cool things, too.

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