Confirm and Prioritize Issues

Another important but relatively easy task is to confirm and prioritize new issues as they're reported on GitHub.

Requirements

• Run up-to-date nightly builds or your own up-to-date build from git
• Ideally, you also have a build of the latest release available to test the issue there as well
• You're comfortable running builds that might break
• You have a GitHub account and are familiar with the issue tracking system (see https://help.github.com/articles/about-issues/ and https://help.github.com/articles/about-discussions-in-issues-and-pull-requests/)

Confirm Issues

Confirming issues simply means you go through the list of issues that were newly created. You then attempt to reproduce the problem on your computer by following the instructions to reproduce provided by the person reporting the issue. Finally, comment on the issue and tell us whether or not you also experience the issue.

This helps the developers to verify the validity of issues.

You can also check older issues to see if they've been fixed already without someone closing the issue.

Prioritize Issues

Prioritizing issues will help the developers to see what needs to be fixed first and will also help us to choose easy issues for new contributors.

For example a crash on the main screen is way more important than a small glitch in a single level that only few people will notice. Also, while small issues will usually be fixed fast by the developers, we could also suggest these to new contributors to get them started quickly. This will help the core developers focus on more important and severe issues.

Simply leave a comment on the issue explaining how severe and important the issue seems to be to you.