FC5, Another unhappy camper
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun May 14 09:00:07 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:31 -0700, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> I believe, submitting bug reports can be discouraging. Open source,
> commercial, whatever. Look through lists of bug reports, across
> various projects, that have no responses whatsoever by debuggers or
> developers. The submitter is then asking, has anyone even read this?
> A simple response such as "I can't reproduce this" is enough of an
> acknowledgement to show the submitter that their input is valued.
It has to depend on what package you're writing a bug report on. I've
reported several bugs, and just about all of them got resolved. Some
very quickly. I was lucky that in most cases I could come up with some
useful background information to go along with the bug (e.g. so-and-so
crashed while starting because it couldn't find "some" file). But if
you can't do that sort of thing, it makes it hard for another person to
rectify a fault, particularly if it works fine for them.
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