making easy bugs easier

[Parth Malwankar]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> An idea:
>
> If you see a bug that should be easy to fix (in both time and
> knowledge of the codebase) but you don't want to do it yourself right
> now then
>
> 1- tag it easy
> 2- more importantly, add a comment explaining _how_ it could be
> tackled, for example
>

Agreed on both counts. 2 would be especially helpful for people like
me who are not very familiar with the code base. It can give a
pointer on where to start looking and an idea of what may be considered
a possible (and acceptable) fix.


>  easy: this could be done by wrapping os.rename in transform and
> transforming OSError into a cleaner message; add a test in
> test_transform
>
> We have several people now working through small-medium bugs at great
> rate and I think this would be an efficient way to stoke this fire.
>
> --
> Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>
>
>