[Mageia-discuss] Think about bugzilla monitoring?

[Farfouille]

Le 25/09/2010 11:13, Michael Scherer a écrit :
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>   We can also try to improve the efficiency of developers.
[...]
> So to conclude, as arrogant and elitist it will sound, the best way for
> everybody to have a bug fixed is to fix it yourself.
Hi,

I do not fully agree with your demonstration, Michael. Mageia targets 
also Average Joe which obviously is not and never be a developer. Your 
conclusion is more appropriate for distros like fedora, which states 
clearly that their target audience is computer-friendly user 
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base)

That said, I believe that improving productivity of developers is part 
of the solution.

How can it be done ?

Short answer : by using language of higher level than C or C++.

Which one ? : Java, D, Vala.

Why these ? because they provide :
- garbage collectors (or some sort of for Vala) which eliminate the 1st 
source of bugs in C/C++ (dangling pointers & memory leaks)
- object oriented programming (C++ also) and GNU/Linux is full of 
objects (Gobject in Gnome, Kobject in linux driver model, etc)

If one compare a C/Gobject program with its equivalent in Vala, it is 
obvious that it will have fewer bugs in Vala version, just because there 
less lines of code hence less places where bugs can hide.

What is means for Mageia ? Nothing for the moment, there are so many 
urgent thinks to do ;) But in the future I would like to help to promote 
high level language programming in Mageia community.

Cheers
Farfouille