[OT] Deafening silence

[Bill Davidsen]

Craig White wrote:
> 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*.
> ----
> 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 at tmr.com>
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