Idea: bug-of-the-week club

[Graham Fawcett]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:56:57 +0200, Don wrote:

> Graham Fawcett wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Would you be interested in starting a "bug-of-the-week club" on the
>> discussion list?
> 
> In a sense, something like that already exists. Anyone who is interested
> in helping compiler bugs get fixed should join the dmd-internals mailing
> list.

Thanks, Don! I'll take a look at the dmd-internals list.

> BTW - It's worth knowing that a significant part of the effort in fixing
> a bug (maybe 25% of the total time) is in creating a minimal test case.
> I've noticed that very few bug reports have completely minimal test
> cases. Reducing existing test cases is something that anyone can do.

+1.

best,
Graham