-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Emmanuel Fleury schrieb: > Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: >> What I don't understand is why you differentiate between bugs and >> feature requests. From my point of view there's no big difference, >> especially for a programmer. In both cases you get to familiar with the >> code and write a patch. > > In a matter of fact, the approach is quite different (in my humble opinion). > > In the case of a bug, you are (most of the time) provided with a > _proper_ behavior of the software and you should twist the code until > you match it. > > In the case of the feature-request, you are actually requested to > provide by your own what the proper behavior should be... and this small > difference might be quite thin to skilled developer but it makes it a > lot harder to students. > Well, a feature request usually comes with a guide how it should work or look like, too. Of course, often there are multiple ways to implement that feature, whereas for a bug the most difficult part is to find the cause of it. I guess it depends which one is more difficult.
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