Fixing the Perception of Bugs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 2, 2010 6:14 AM EDT
OStatic; By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
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re bugs, and bug reports, are good. No really, at least that's what Karl Fogel says in trying to squash the idea that bugs are "technical debt that developers must repay. Fogel, who works for Canonical on the Launchpad platform, says that it's a fallacy that growths in bug reports is bad. On the contrary, more bug reports mean good news because it means more users are using the project. If you've participated in a growing project, it's not unusual to see alarm at the growing number of bug reports and the inability to address them all. Soon, developers start talking about focusing on bugs and not features.

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