Description
Why
It seems that ImageSequencer has a lot of bugs and optimization issues. For example, it does not work on Firefox #1211.
We trying to add awesome features like Face Detection and Motion Blur. Just look at the contributions below.
This is superb! This is the sign of a bustling community.
But there is one problem with this. The bugs. There are 72 open PRs out of which, a major portion is facing Travis failure. And it is during the debugging of these, that we find new bugs which are a result of old, unmaintained and unprotected (untested) code. Have a look at #1623 for example. Such issues should have been fixed a long while ago.
If we continue adding new features without fixing old bugs, we are going to face a huge roadblock where the new features will be hindered by old bugs and the features would introduce more bugs. We are just going deeper and deeper into a black hole. We need to act fast. We have to fix these bugs before we cross the event horizon, the point of no return! I am overdramatizing this but this is pretty serious.
The Campaign
This February, let's take a break from our usual issues, new feature implementation and completion of old PRs. Let's just step away from our existing PRs and start fixing bugs!
Let us all claim at least one issue marked as a bug and get it fixed by the end of February. Even if you don't know how to proceed, just claim it. Do some research. I am sure you will find a solution.
If your PR gets merged early, you could even claim a new one and stomp it too!
You could help us by reporting bugs too!
What You Will Learn
Debugging is something you learn only by experience. In the process of fixing a bug, you can learn a lot. You may learn to use a new feature of some programming language. You may start understanding a difficult concept better. Even quirky behaviors of obscure features will start making sense.
Let us all fix at least one bug by the end of February and maintain a list of the bugs we have "stomped". At the end of this campaign, the first week of March, we are going to have a week-long testing campaign wherein everyone adds a test to ImageSequencer to secure it from future bugs. The bugs fixed during this campaign will be linked to a test in the upcoming March campaign.
Open PRs
- Fix error in replaceImage function #1625 by @blurry-x-face
- Fixes error on
|character in CLI #1634 by @blurry-x-face
List of Stomped Bugs
- Edge detect is not working correctly #1576 in Edge Detect Fixed! #1629
- Edge Detect Possibly Glitching on Horizontal Edges #1632 in Edge Detect Horizontal Edges Got Fixed #1696
NOTE: We will try not to focus on/merge PRs other than bug fixes this month.
Thank You!
cc @jywarren @publiclab/is-reviewers