From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster•com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:41:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E38A731.9070703@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T3W=n6VVJfOUqcd52oYvd-5hSwdOJudtVHK4g0bPGpXew@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/26/2011 6:31 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Anybody have advice on how to encourage more bug-fixing and testing of
> existing functionality instead of yet-more-features?
Two things would help a lot:
1) Letting people know that bug fixing is needed and would be
appreciated. (In fact, until I saw your email, I had no idea this was an
issue.)
2) Maintaining a list of the most important bugs that most need to be
fixed in a place that's easy to find.
I bet there are a lot of talented programmers who just can't quite
figure out how best to help or don't realize that this kind of help is
needed.
Also, even better than a bounty system would probably be a changelog
file included in the main source distribution that credited bugfixes to
those who contributed them for the next few releases.
DS
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-03 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 1:31 Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27 6:40 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 11:14 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:20 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 14:28 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-27 14:42 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:53 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 16:02 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-27 16:07 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-27 16:47 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-27 17:11 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 17:15 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 22:45 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27 22:54 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 23:07 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-28 6:31 ` John Smith
2011-07-28 0:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-28 15:37 ` Caleb James DeLisle
[not found] ` <1311811317.72375.YahooMailNeo@web121005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2011-07-28 0:02 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fw: " Amir Taaki
2011-07-30 11:49 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Mike Hearn
2011-07-30 14:06 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-30 14:07 ` Matt Corallo
2011-08-03 1:41 ` David Schwartz [this message]
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