So for those of you living under the rock, this month its TestFest time over in PHP-land. What started as a wild idea on IRC is now a global event that spans the globe from Europe to North and South America (I must say I really love the logo of the Costa Rica PHP UG!). So far things have more or less worked out. Not as we originally planned, but with so many people stepping up to the plate, the community is really showing how much it can achieve when it works together. If you head on over to the bug tracker (yeah originally we planned to have a custom interface) you can see that we almost have 100 submissions at this point. Watching the php-cvs commit mailinglist one can also see that a number of tests have already been committed.

What I have also seen is a general spike in interest on the QA mailinglist and IRC channels. So hopefully the ultimate goal of the TestFest will also be achieved: A long term increase in helping hands on the QA side of things. Of course we are also looking for the short term boost in test cases. So its not too late to join an existing planned TestFest later this month or even organizing a TestFest of your own!

Update: The Munich TestFest is still looking for participants. There is no definitive date yet, but it will take place in the last week of May .. most likely May 31st.

It's great to see such enthousiasm in the community! If we can keep up with even a part of this work and continue to submit some tests now and then, PHP as a whole can only benefit.
Plus, from my personal experience, it's a great way to get to know the PHP source code itself, from a non-core developer point of view. Great initiative, keep them coming ;-)