From: Alan E. <ala...@gm...> - 2006-06-08 04:18:45
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Speaking as a PhD student who basically dropped out of my program due to spending so much time fixing bugs and not enough time doing research, it hasn't worked for me yet... I think that it would be really nice if a PhD student could work towards a PhD and fix jEdit at the same time, but how can that be considered an "original" thread of research? It's a practical problem, but can a solution in jedit's case be considered itself a line of research in the area of software engineering, deserving of some funding? On 6/6/06, Slava Pestov <sl...@je...> wrote: > I think if these PhD students really wanted to do something useful, > they would > contribute patches or send bug reports. Pretty graphs might look good > to a thesis > defense committee but are ultimately useless. |