- Status:
- Discarded
HostingService Bug-Fix Summary
Review Request #7799 — Created Dec. 7, 2015 and discarded
This contains a txt file that is a summary of the bug-fix I worked on for this term.
Hi, my name is Calvin Shin, and I am a former FB Open Academy student who was
assigned with fixing a bug, and I would like to explain how I fixed this bug.
Let's get to it!
The initial issue at hand was that as an admin of Review Board, you could not
add a private Github or Kiln repository. It displayed a message that read
" 'URLError' object has no attribute 'read()'." Once I tackled this, I
changed the error message so that it could properly convey why the error was occurring.
Now, for a step-by-step process on how I tackled this HostingService bug-fix.
First, the error message that popped up when I reproduced this bug was a good
indicator of where I should look in the code to start. Keep in mind the scale
of the Review Board codebase in comparison to that of your class assignments
and projects. So the error message really saved me a lot of time. Debugging
can really get you lost for hours with a codebase like Review Board.
Anyways, proceeding with this "hint," I did a q