Lots of eyeballs to find the remaining bugs?
Knapp
magick.crow at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 18:12:50 UTC 2010
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand it to mean these bugs:
>> Installation and upgrade bugs,
>
> That has nothing to do with KDE 4.
>
>
>> Kubuntu-specific bugs (notification
>> indicator widget, the printer applet),
>
> Are these Kubuntu / Canonical developments?
>
>
>> packaging bugs (akonadi errors,
>> Ubuntu/Debian-specific patches)......
>>
>
> This sounds like the point that I had missed. Yes, packaging KDE 4 is
> in fact different than packaging KDE 3.
>
>
>> Kubuntu devs do submit bug fix patches to KDE as well.
>>
>
> I was unaware of that, in fact I think I had once read criticism
> (maybe out of date by now) that Canonical does not contribute back to
> KDE.
>
>
>> You might want to also ask this question on the -devel list.
>>
>
> As it is a curiosity issue I don't want to bother them with such
> matters in the last week before a release! There it might be
> considered trolling, whereas here I could gather some insight from
> community.
>
>
> Thanks, Clay!
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
As has been pointed out many places, a well documented and
reproducible bug is as good as dead. (that means it is easy to fix).
The bugs that are very hard to fix are ones that just happen when
they feel like it and seem to have no relevance to outside inputs. So
saying that they don't fix bugs does not really mean that much.
Finding and great reporting are were most of the work is, most of the
time. Sometimes it takes many people reporting it in different ways
for the programmers to get enough info to find the bug. Collecting
this info and sending it upstream can be a very big help.
--
Douglas E Knapp
Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/
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