On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:11:02PM +0200, Felipe Borges wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> Is it really a chicken-egg dilemma? Are the crashes and bugs specific to
> some hardware or underlying software configuration? Or are the bugs
> always reproducible by the maintainer? If it's the latter, I don't see
> why it is a chicken-egg dilemma, you have everything in hand to write
> (mostly) stable software from day 1.
Right, because everything just works on GNOME, right?
You didn't answer my question, I suppose the bugs in Usage are
reproducible by anyone.
Some developers work too quickly and as a result there are more bugs.
Personnally I prefer to work more slowly, taking the time to do things
right, documenting correctly the code and the APIs, writing unit tests
and so on. Another best-practice is to not proceed by trials and errors:
before executing the code, you must be sure that it is correct and that
it'll work.
Anyhow, Usage has been developed by one of our interns in Red Hat.
Petr is 19 years old and has been super excited about the opportunity
to work with us. I took the lead to right to mail lists and speak in
the name of the project because he feels insecure and demotivated to
do so, you know, the free software community can be pretty harsh and
rude to newcomers.
Why didn't you say that in your first email? I thought it was you who
wrote Usage, and since I know you're around in GNOME since quite some
time, I think my comment was appropriate, at least it would make you
think about the issue: yes, most of the time, if the developer tests
correctly its own code, it's possible to write mostly bug-free software,
when following a good methodology and taking the time to do things
right, instead of always working in a hurry. I know that beginners more
often proceed by trials and errors, and that's not a good practice.
--
Sébastien
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