On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Eric Schrock wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Brian Y Wong wrote:
there was a short discussion last night about bite-size bugs in
the OpenSolaris User Group. I took a look, and many of these bugs
already have proposed fixes. Why not just apply the fixes and get
on with more interesting problems?
The cost of making a change to Solaris is never free. Every
bug, no matter how small, requires testing, codereview, and RTI
approval. The amount of effort may only take a few hours
(depending on
the complexity of the testing needed), but it's decidedly non-zero.
If we had infinite resources, then we would just go off and fix these
bugs. But sadly, that is not the case. Hence the hope that community
members can chip away at these easy bugs as a way of getting started.
And how will the community test those fixes in a proper way?
Are the special test tools needed (yeah, I know they exist)
or will 'continuous use' count as testing?
Well, I'm not on the 'test list', maybe I should subscribe to that
one too.
J^2
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