Very nice!

Can I have a username/password for the bug report system?

Harry

Op 6-jan-2008, om 3:25 heeft Youness Alaoui het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
> As some of you may have noticed, we just had 34 commits today into  
> SVN. That's a lot.. and the cause ? the bug report system..
> We just deleted all those old bugs that were already fixed or rare  
> or whatever. This made the bugs database shrink from 3 GB of bug  
> reports to 28MB of
> bug reports...
> What does this mean basically ? well it means that the bug report  
> system will now be much faster than before since it was VERY slow  
> because it had to
> deal with half a million bug reports, now there are only 3 thousand  
> (for now).
> We (phil, tom and me) fixed many of them so far, but there are  
> still a lot to look at. Those of you who want to have a look at it  
> and start fixing,
> please.. don't hesitate. We have 8 opened 'bugs', and around 1400  
> 'wild bug reports' (those familiar with the bug report system will  
> know what I mean
> by this).
> For more info, you can always take a look at : http://www.amsn- 
> project.net/wiki/BugDatabaseGuide
>
> If we want to have a 0.97.1 bugfix release, this is the best way to  
> do it.. in the forums, we had very few people reporting bugs, which  
> means that
> 0.97 is VERY stable (compared to 0.95 or 0.96 for which we got the  
> forums spammed with user reports right after the releases). But if  
> we really want a
> good quality product, this means we will need to have all our users  
> launch aMSN and use it without ever receiving any 'bug report' from  
> us. That would
> mean that the product is stable and that's what we'd like to be  
> aiming at.
> To achieve this, we need to close all those bugs from the bug  
> report system.. some might be 'unfixable', but they still are.. if  
> we see a 'no disk
> space' error, we need to track down down 'puts' and catch them..  
> this is the time to make the code more robust.. when we call a  
> function, make sure
> the return value is correct (I just fixed some like that, where we  
> did a [::ChatWindow::For $chatid] and it returned "0" instead of  
> the chat window
> path, and added error checking to avoid using the "0" as if it was  
> an actual window).
> Anything unfixable should be 'catch'-ed or something else..
> BUG FIXING TIME IS HERE!!!!!!!
>
> have fun! :D
>
> KaKaRoTo
>
>
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