{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2011-07-26\n🗒️ Summary of this message: Gavin Andresen, a Bitcoin developer, seeks advice on how to encourage more bug-fixing and testing of existing functionality instead of adding new features.\n📝 Original message:Anybody have advice on how to encourage more bug-fixing and testing of\nexisting functionality instead of yet-more-features?\n\nWhen I get back home from here in Australia I plan on trying to\nlead-by-example by starting to tackle the huge backlog of reported bugs, but\nI'd like to know if anybody has seen other open source projects successfully\nget people to fix bugs instead of constantly adding features. Would policies\nlike \"that spiffy new feature you want won't be considered until you've\nhelped close some open bugs\" be effective (or would it just encourage people\nto create shill accounts to open trivial-to-fix issues)?\n\nIf this was your run-of-the-mill open source project I would be much\nmore lackadaisical about letting in new features... but when people lose\nmoney because bugs slip through (and several people HAVE recently lost money\nbecause of bugs slipping through) we obviously have a pretty big problem\njust making sure that the features we have now work properly.\n\n(Thanks VERY much to those of you have HAVE been helping test and have been\nsubmitting bug fixes; I don't mean to imply that everybody has been\nfeature-happy, just that it seems like a lot of potential bitcoin\ncontributors start out by submitting a nifty new feature that sure would be\nnice to have if we weren't so busy trying to make sure the features we\nalready have work properly all the time).\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20110727/9192a372/attachment.html\u003e"}