Onwards!

[Mike Alexander]

--On December 29, 2010 6:46:25 PM -0500 Yawar Amin 
<yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can we have a convention or a policy among devs that any time one of
> us creates a new bug report, we have to attach a patch to it either
> immediately or within a very short period of time (say, a day)? The
> idea is to make the bug list more actionable, instead of a big wish
> list.
>
> So in this scenario, if a patch is not attached within 24 hours,
> someone (the assignee) would close it as WONTFIX.
>
> Note that I’m advocating this only for bug reports from devs.
> We’re obviously not expecting patches from users who’re looking
> for help and support. If we go for this, we can say this will apply
> to all new bug reports from Jan 1st, or all existing bugs, or
> whatever….

Why would you want to do that?  I sometimes find bugs in parts of the 
code that I don't understand well or have no immediate plans to work 
on.  You think I shouldn't report them just because I'm a developer? 
Or maybe I think I know how to fix it, but it will take a while to code 
and test properly.  A bug report is useful in that case to let others 
know that it's a known problem which is being worked on.

        Mike