The LogiLogi Manta bughunt is now officially open. The idea is that everyone is invited to find and fix as many bugs as possible in LogiLogi Manta. The one who finds and fixes the most bugs will win a nice prize and of course everlasting glory! What the prize is will be a surprise until the bughunting season closes again, which as it seems now will happen on the 13th of April.
Especially for the students from the University of Nijmegen this is part of their assignment. They work in pairs, so every bug is sent in by a pair, but counts are going to be kept individually (as pairs will rotate). I (Wybo) will be keeping the score, and checking the committed code and bugs. And to ensure a fair game I will not partake in the bughunt myself, so any commits / bug-reports I file will not be counted… (but fixes for them by you are).
The scores will be reported on the mailing-list each week.
Both bugs and bug-fixes will be good for points. A bug and a fix for a bug will each be good for one point. So finding a bug and fixing it will give you 2 points, while just finding one will give you 1 point. Exceptionally hard to find bugs or difficult/big fixes may be rewarded with 3 points each.
Bugs are to be chased without mercy! Manta is to be twisted, turned, squeezed, slapped, jammed, racked, swung, smacked and rocked in all it’s rational and irrational N dimensions to find and kill ‘em all! Those bloody low-life bad bugs! But please go hunting only on your own development-machine, and don’t disturb the peace of the running version of manta… :)
Also make sure you are always using the last svn checkout.
Happy hunting!
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