One of my goals for 3.10 is to improve the quality of the image. Our first release (coming soon!) will have only green tests, and each following release will have only green tests. But there are many other things that could be checked automatically. For example, there should be no unimplemented methods in the released image. Unfortunately, there are a lot right now, so we can't make that rule. But I would like to have all these fixed by the end of the 3.10 cycle and to be able to enforce the rule that no release has any unimplemented methods.
Jerome Peace has been working on getting rid of unimplemented methods and has a lot of fixes. You can find them at http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=4544 This is the original Mantis issue that he has been working on. Most of the fixes are in "child" issues, but you can find them from that page.
You can help by checking Jerome's fixes. If you are familiar with the code he is changing, read it and see whether you can spot anything wrong. If you can, post a note. If you can't, please post a note that, as far as you can tell, it looks good. If you aren't that familiar with the code, but are working on an application that uses it, please file in the changes and try out your application. Again, report on the results!
If two or three people try out some changes and everybody thinks they are OK, the release team will mark the issue as "resolved" and put it in the next release.
We will make sure the code doesn't break any tests. But if you don't try out the code then we'll have to try it, as well, and that will take a lot more time. So, you can help us get more work done by checking out these fixes.
Thanks!
-Ralph Johnson