Brad Roberts, el 10 de mayo a las 16:08 me escribiste: > Leandro Lucarella wrote: > > > I reported the bug because I think that could be the case. If is not, it's > > a Gold bug and it should be reported. If it is, it should be fixed in DMD. > > I don't have the knowlegde to check that myself, and that's why I reported > > the bug to both tools. > > > >> In other words, it's not at all surprising to me that the bug report > >> hasn't received a lot of attention yet. > > > > So you are saying you have to be a compiler hacker to report a bug? Great, > > that make sense! > > You seem to have missed my point. The point was, the more detailed the > report, > the clearer the steps to reproduce, the more obvious it is that the compiler > is > what's broken.. all of these things increase the likelihood of a bug report > having a higher priority. > > The incoming rate is higher than the fix rate (as evidenced by the number of > open bugs) and so something has to give. All I was doing was illustrating > some > reasons that might have contributed to that specific report not having been > fixed yet. > > Do I encourage filing bugs without the level of detail I suggest help get bugs > fixed fast? Absolutely. An un-filed bug is an un-fixed bug. > > Take these points as ways to help make sure your important issues can be > addressed quickly and easily.
I totally agree, but you put my bug report as an example of a bad bug report. I don't think it is a bad bug report, so please let me know if you think I can improve it without being a compiler hacker. -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- He used to do surgery On girls in the eighties But gravity always wins