On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de> wrote:
On 05/16/2016 09:39 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
The Coin3 package has a serious bug[1] that was only recently uncovered
by GCC 6.

 The big question here is, whether this issue is a bug in Coin at all or actually is a bug in GCC6 - I don't know.

I'm not enough of a programmer to be able to tell, all I know is that the only serious 3D CAD program for Fedora (and linux in general) is completely unusable while this problem exists.


During the process of figuring out the problem (and solution)
I asked the devel list for help. Thanks to those that quickly came to my
aid.

 I thought you guys did apply the patches, you had rushed in what I consider overly hasty ways - to say the least.

Unfortunately not all of us packagers are full fledged programmers, if that were a requirement Fedora would be much smaller. The fix worked as far as I could tell, I did produce a test package first which the end user verified fixed the problem which is as much as I can do other than ask upstream. Are they even active?


 Reality is, I simply haven't managed to look into this issue for seasonal reasons (Public holidays, short vacations) and had to priorise jobs.

I understand we are all volunteers here, I have plenty to do at $DAYJOB and home life to more than consume my time. I even attempted to look at potential holidays but I wasn't 100% sure where you lived so couldn't really do much so I checked the mostly useless Fedora vacation/away calendar.

 
fedora-active-user shows plenty of recent activity.
Correct. There were, are higher priority issues but this bug.

A simple acknowledgement by email or BZ would have sufficed. I don't know what other problems you are working on so I will not make any comparisons, but I do consider FreeCAD to be an important piece of software for Fedora and both how quickly the problem was reported and the number of people I heard from indicates it's important to Fedora users as well.

Thanks,
Richard