What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]

[William Beebe]

On 5/28/05, Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> wrote:

> Brainstorming there may be, but certain folk in the GCC community simply
> like being annoying, perhaps to feed their own sense of self-importance.
> It is quite possible to disagree with someone without be disagreeable,
> as exemplified by Evandro Menezes recently.
> 
> ..Scott

It's called polite constructive criticism. Unfortunately, the lack of
civility when offering important judgement isn't limited to this
newsgroup. For example, whenever I feel the temperature rising a bit
too high, I just wonder over to the lkml and lurk awhile until I
realize once more what wonderfully sainted individuals the gcc
developers are.