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title: ! 'Issue #13'
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Welcome to issue #13 of the weekly brief! This week Apple released beta 6 of iOS 9.3, watchOS 2.2, and OS X 10.11.4, with no new beta for Xcode 7.3 &mdash; the final release should be getting close!

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### Starter tasks

What's this new section of the weekly brief?! Last week <NAME> [suggested](https://twitter.com/modocache/status/704461870627844096) including a list of introductory tasks to help beginners or new comers get involved. It's an awesome idea, and should be super helpful for the community. However, finding good tasks can be rather involved and I already have trouble finding free time 😁 &mdash; so I'm asking for your help! 😄 If you come across a good starter task, let me know by opening [an issue]({{ site.links.issue }}) or [pull request]({{ site.links.pull }}) &mdash; or tweet [to me](https://twitter.com/jesse_squires) or [@swiftlybrief]({{ site.links.twitter }}). Each Thursday, I'll list tasks here, if any.

For this week, Brian has kindly offered a few [suggestions](https://twitter.com/modocache/status/707819290175651841):

1. [SR-907](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-907): Add convenience XCTestExpectation constructors
2. [SR-906](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-906): Allow XCTestCase.continueAfterFailure to be set
3. [SR-875](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-875): Make swift-corelibs-xctest Functional tests regex matching more like FileCheck

If you are unsure or intimidated about contributing, I know a guy that gave [a talk](https://speakerdeck.com/jessesquires/contributing-to-open-source-swift) about this recently that might help motivate you! 😉

### Commits and pull requests
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layout: post
title: ! 'Issue #13'
author: jsq
---

Welcome to issue #13 of the weekly brief! This week Apple released beta 6 of iOS 9.3, watchOS 2.2, and OS X 10.11.4, with no new beta for Xcode 7.3 &mdash; the final release should be getting close!

<!--excerpt-->

### Starter tasks

What's this new section of the weekly brief?! Last week <NAME> [suggested](https://twitter.com/modocache/status/704461870627844096) including a list of introductory tasks to help beginners or new comers get involved. It's an awesome idea, and should be super helpful for the community. However, finding good tasks can be rather involved and I already have trouble finding free time 😁 &mdash; so I'm asking for your help! 😄 If you come across a good starter task, let me know by opening [an issue]({{ site.links.issue }}) or [pull request]({{ site.links.pull }}) &mdash; or tweet [to me](https://twitter.com/jesse_squires) or [@swiftlybrief]({{ site.links.twitter }}). Each week, I'll list any submitted tasks here.

For this week, Brian has kindly offered a few [suggestions](https://twitter.com/modocache/status/707819290175651841):

1. [SR-907](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-907): Add convenience XCTestExpectation constructors
2. [SR-906](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-906): Allow XCTestCase.continueAfterFailure to be set
3. [SR-875](https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-875): Make swift-corelibs-xctest Functional tests regex matching more like FileCheck

If you are unsure or intimidated about contributing, I know a guy that gave [a talk](https://speakerdeck.com/jessesquires/contributing-to-open-source-swift) about this recently that might help motivate you! 😉

### Commits and pull requests

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