From: "Khimenko Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:55:42 +0400 (MSD)
> Oops. Sorry if I hurt your feelings. It was not my wish (ok, it was not wish
> by iself to be exact - see below). In fact it was not even 100% modracity - I
> really wondered why such problem can be unnoticed for so long:
Ok, I forgive you. Please understand that any programmer DOES make
mistakes, perhaps, many, many! For example, I think Erich Boleyn is
one of very great programmers, but GRUB 0.5 had several bugs perhaps
due to him. I've fixed the bugs I found but I believe that some more
bugs should still be left, because I also make several mistakes and
I'm not a so good programmer as him. Thus, if you suspect that
anything is wrong, I recommend explaining what it is and why it is
wrong. In many cases, there is no good reason why it is, that is, it
is just a bug.
> option if I recall correctly). It was kind of hard to believe that with all
> this fuzz noone ever looked in interrupt list to verify if check is sane !
I think so, too. However, I suspect that the option is still
necessary, though I'm not sure.
> Yeah. I know about etiquette :-) I'm deliberately violate it (see above).
> Sorry about this once more - looks like it was not needed this time (on
> other side it was not pure mordacity as I've said before).
Of course, you shouldn't do such a thing in this list, and you
shouldn't do in other lists, either. Don't forget that, in free
software projects, most developers are merely volunteers (I'm,
too). So you should look up to them and you have no right to blame
them, even if they don't reply you. If you want to ensure that you
will get useful responses, send money to them instead, as their salary
to support you. This is a much better approach. IMO, your current
strategy is one of the things that most hackers dislike.
Okuji
