WordPress Core Trac Gardening

Scared of WordPress Core Trac, but want to give it a shot? Try Trac Gardening! – Helen on WordPress
For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore (except perhaps for Sergey). Casual and hopeful patch contributors…
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Helen Hou-Sandí’s got a pretty great idea for folks looking to pitch in on core development:

For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore.

I’ll gladly spend a little time this next cycle doing a little “gardening”.