Re: Teaching GNOME to students...

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

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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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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl

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