> >> Recently I reported a text failure in Mail, added instructions and a sample >> to reproduce it. They reported it fixed. I spent my time to check on the >> latest Mac OS and it’s not fixed. I marked the bug as Still Open As >> Written. Nothing’s been done about it since. My time has been triply >> wasted as a result. > How long ago did you mark it SOAW? No offense but if there hasn't been > a full OS release cycle since then I think you may be a little overly > critical, cynical and impatient. As I said above, getting a bug into a > software update is very difficult. The reward has to be significantly higher > then the risk. So maybe it will get fixed in the next major release or they > are having trouble reproducing or something benign like that? > > >> I don’t have time to professionally do Apple’s job for them and they aren’t >> paying me to. > I agree. However, you also can’t expect Apple to be able to test all > possible configurations or scenarios. That would be physically & > statistically impossible. That is one reason they have the beta program, to > get a wider audience before the public release. Without (well written) bug > reports from devs, they may never know about issues like this. Especially > since issues like this are highly configuration dependent. >
Why not? They used to do a *much* better job when they had much lesser resources, now they are rich they really couldn’t care less. I agree with Alex, reporting bugs in a total waste of time these days. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
