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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:56, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> The contest will go roughly as follows:
>
> - The lead develoeprs will pick out a pool of bugs, (say) 300 that look
>   valid and non-trivial, but also fixable without too much black magic.
>   They'd also be on non-core spells (no glibc or linux-pam).
I have a suggestion. Let 5 of those (say) 20 be feature bugs. Not as in 
wishlist feature requests, but bugs on the same topic, technology. It would 
force us to learn new things and know what is available better.

Examples:
* convert a spell to build_api2
* remove one $SPELL_CONFIG usage in favour of config_query and persistent 
variables
* use a repair file
* use upstream signature/hash
* patching
* use a trigger
* implement a subdep call
* new spell (something from the 100 submissions in the bt)
...

So some bitderot duties and technology applications. Most of the examples I 
thought of, have such bugs or needs already available.

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