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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing
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On 7/26/2011 6:31 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Anybody have advice on how to encourage more bug-fixing and testing of
> existing functionality instead of yet-more-features?
Two things would help a lot:
1) Letting people know that bug fixing is needed and would be
appreciated. (In fact, until I saw your email, I had no idea this was an
issue.)
2) Maintaining a list of the most important bugs that most need to be
fixed in a place that's easy to find.
I bet there are a lot of talented programmers who just can't quite
figure out how best to help or don't realize that this kind of help is
needed.
Also, even better than a bounty system would probably be a changelog
file included in the main source distribution that credited bugfixes to
those who contributed them for the next few releases.
DS
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