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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
- From: "Sam Lauber" <sam124 at operamail dot com>
- To: "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:09:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
> > > Agreed. But keep in mind that it is not necessary to reply: once the
bug is
> > > open and confirmed, the last comment "wins", in a way. If the
bugmaster
> > > wanted to close it, he would just do it, so an objection in a comment
does
> > > not make the bug invalid per se.
> >
> > But an objection from one of the bugmasters *is* enough to keep people
> > from presenting a patch.
>
> How do you come to this conclusion? From my experience this
> is untrue - bugs get fixed because either someone feels resposible,
> it's too easy to do, or someone has personal interest in getting the
> bug fixed. Negative or positive comments do not change this.
Once I submitted a bug to a project (not GCC) in November '04. I didn't
recive a conformation mail until last month!
Samuel Lauber
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