On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote:
> On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote:
> The users and bug reports are, by and large, irrelevant. Mine certainly have
> been. As I said, sometimes I did not give enough info, but it also really
> didn't *matter*.
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would like to relate something very funny about bug reporting.
I reported a bug to Ximian (gnome-evolution) more than 5 years ago and
it just got picked up today...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271193
Of course I had completely forgotten about this bug report I made and in
the spirit of better late than never, I suppose I am glad.
Bug reports are not always irrelevant but sometimes it seems that way.
Seamonkey 2.0.1 fixed a bug I reported in about 1995 or so. Unlike the Linux
kernel there's no easy way to put patches out, so fixing a bug becomes a
lifetime job.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot