Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/29/18:19:18
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:01:10PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:48:26AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > The words below were written by Richard Stallman, I believe:
>> >
>> > Reporting Bugs
>> > **************
>> >
>> > Your bug reports play an essential role in making GCC reliable.
>> >
>> > When you encounter a problem, the first thing to do is to see if it
>> > is already known. *Note Trouble::. If it isn't known, then you should
>> > report the problem.
>> >
>> > Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem,
>> > or it may not. (If it does not, look in the service directory; see
>> > *Note Service::.) In any case, the principal function of a bug report
>> > is to help the entire community by making the next version of GCC work
>> > better. Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of GCC.
>> >
>> > Since the maintainers are very overloaded, we cannot respond to every
>> > bug report. However, if the bug has not been fixed, we are likely to
>> > send you a patch and ask you to tell us whether it works.
>> >
>> > Interesting philosophy.
>>
>> Any part in particular? (I'm wondering what you're commenting on.)
>
>That's what I was thinking. Just wait 'till he reads the GNU Manifesto ;-)
I was commenting on the general philosophy of bug reporting. Few, if
any, of the principles outlined above are in evidence in this mailing
list.
cgf
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