On 1/7/11 6:21 AM, "no-re...@cfengine.com" <no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Feature request: add a flag to enable bug reporting / automatic > submission > Author: bbomgardner > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20031,20039#msg-20039 > > Personally I think that introducing something like auto-bug submission into a > mature project is in some ways an admission of unstable code. And I'd rather > have development time spent on new features or other efficiency improvements. > Just my opinion of course.
Also just my opinions... It's all we really have. :) All software has bugs. Any product, regardless of maturity, needs a way for the community to easily report potential bugs. Of course the original post is just one idea, there may be a better implementation...but I do feel the idea is quite sound (I've seen it in other projects). "Mature" projects like the BSD's, as one example, have bugs found in code that's been stable for years. Thank you Mark and friends for your tireless efforts, but we really can not think we are somehow better than other projects. In fact, most of the "software" I've had bad experiences with in my IT career have been "mature products with no or poorly-designed bug reporting tools". Maturity doesn't require stodginess. Adding improvements == writing code == potential for more bugs == a great time to think about our bug reporting mechanism. > Not being a developer myself, I see the solution to more rapid bug fixes is to > continue expanding the user base by creating more community resources. I > think in this way we can aid Mark in recruiting more developers to the team. Historically development has been closed, but I do think this is a great parallel goal. At the very least, more critical eyes on the code would help move us forward at a rapid pace via patch submissions, mailing list dialogs discussing perceived architectural issues, BCPs, etc. -- "America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top." -- Utah Phillips _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
