[Mageia-discuss] Think about bugzilla monitoring?

Sat Sep 25 13:58:15 CEST 2010

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+Le 25/09/2010 11:13, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+[...]
+>   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
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