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Re: [eclipse-pmc] 4.2 Bug Hunt Competition

Hm…

 

While getting patches is of course interesting, is this really the main goal to accomplish at the moment ?

 

As much as I understand things, many of the really important 4.x defects are not really trivial ones to fix (unless there’s many tagged “helpwanted” … I didn’t check). My impression was that the more important thing at the moment is actually _find_ what’s still a problem, no ?

 

Martin

 

From: eclipse-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Andrew Overholt; eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [eclipse-pmc] 4.2 Bug Hunt Competition

 

How about "largest # of accepted patches during the contest period"?

I think anything that encourages people to contribute would be awesome. Heck, if <# of accepted patches> > 3, I'd even offer them commit rights. :-)

McQ.

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Re: [eclipse-pmc] 4.2 Bug Hunt Competition





Hi,

> We EMOers were wondering if there was anything the Foundation could do to help
> drive community help for 4.2 QA. E.g. a bug hunt competition where we promote
> and provide some prizes (iPads or the like).

Sounds like a great idea to me!

It might also be a good way to get people involved in various projects
if we can drive participation there with requests for smoke/manual
testing instructions.  I'm envisioning something like "Hi, I'm new to
<project x> and want to verify things work perfectly with 4.2.  Outside
of running the unit tests, is there a set of steps I can manually run to
verify things are working as expected?"

It's probably also a good idea to keep a wiki page where bug reporters
can list their bugs and maybe a blog entry about what they tested and
found (could be a good substitute for bugs if they can't find any :).

Andrew
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