Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:

| On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
| 
| > 1) Bugmasters could be less perfunctory and pejorative in their
| > comments. Examples have been given.
| 
| But you don't see all the thank you emails I get too because they are
| almost always in a private email.  And most of the time I don't close
| a bug unless I am really really sure that the bug is invalid.  I usually
| say "I think this is invalid".

The issue is not whether a report is effectively an invalid bug.  The
issue is whether the reporter must be assumed an obscure ignorant
whose main ill wills are to fill up the GCC bug database, and as such
deserve a corresponding rudeness and must be fought.

-- Gaby