mc^2 news (august 2016)

[denisgolovan]

18.08.2016, 22:01, "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>:

> Besides, I don't even want to work on mc all day long :-) It's a great
> hobby project for a few days per week, but that's about it. So, my
> personal dream would be to find an employer who is ready to sponsor 1/2
> days per week of open source work (the more, the better ;-) ), such that I
> could put part of this time towards mc, but on a regular basis (i.e.
> weekly) rather than ad hoc, and still enjoy all the perks of not being
> "self-employed"; how this pans out we shall see in the near future.

Yeap. I understand you perfectly :)

>
> Now, yet again, this is just my personal view of things...
>
>>  I mean to structure those 500+ bugs/features ("future" milestone) in
>>  some meaningful way + put some estimates(weeks, dollars)/difficulty for
>>  them and try to pursue people on popular Linux forums for support.
>
> If you are willing to invest some serious effort into pulling out
> something like that, let me know if there is anything I could reasonably
> help you with.

Well.
It looks to me it will require becoming an MC developer first.
To make a positive influence on this process, I mean.
Estimating/tearing tickets apart/etc. requires quite a lot of project internal structure knowledge.

> In my personal view of the situation, however, then the biggest problem
> with mc codebase today is the abysmal state of test coverage, which makes
> maintenance a gamble and demands extreme efforts to review patches.
>
> Before this problem is addressed, I'm not very positive about soliciting
> massive contributions, which will end up rotting on the Trac waiting for
> code reviews and rewrites... that might never come.

Hm. That doesn't seem too optimistic...

> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev

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Regards,
Denis Golovan