FixCache
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How HN took it
0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea based on a published paper
From 1 comment
Looks really cool, although it's a shame the description isn't a bit more "plain language" - a simple summary of what it is intended for, before going into jargon would help…
nmstoker on HN
Objections
Description is jargon-heavy and unclear about purpose
From 2 comments
Looks really cool, although it's a shame the description isn't a bit more "plain language" - a simple summary of what it is intended for, before going into jargon would help…
nmstoker on HNI read the whole README but have no idea what this does. Is it letting you know when you change files that have had a large number of bug fixes recently? With the assumption that…
remram on HN
Bug-fix locations may be biased by reporting and management attention
From 1 comment
Are you sure it's not discovering bad developers? Maybe critical areas, e.g. that have the same amount of bugs as the rest but are complained about more? (since the algorithm can…
remram on HN
Keyword matching may miss bugs that GitHub issue or PR metadata would catch
From 1 comment
Based on the existence of the config option "FIX_KEY_WORDS", it seems like this detects bugs just using keyword matching? Github also tracks when issues are fixed by commits (and…
rcthompson on HN
Requests
Plain-language README describing intended use and value
From 1 comment
Looks really cool, although it's a shame the description isn't a bit more "plain language" - a simple summary of what it is intended for, before going into jargon would help…
nmstoker on HN
Pluggable hook to define what counts as a bug fix
From 1 comment
One way to support this would be to make FixCache support an optional hook that would be responsible for deciding if a given commit was a bug fix or not. Naively, it could have…
shoo on HN
Use GitHub issue or PR metadata to detect fixes
From 1 comment
Based on the existence of the config option "FIX_KEY_WORDS", it seems like this detects bugs just using keyword matching? Github also tracks when issues are fixed by commits (and…
rcthompson on HN
Questions
How is spatial locality defined
From 1 comment
Neato. How is "spatial locality" defined? Just distance in the filesystem tree?
bjackman on HN
Why recently fixed files would be more bug-prone
From 1 comment
I read the whole README but have no idea what this does. Is it letting you know when you change files that have had a large number of bug fixes recently? With the assumption that…
remram on HN