On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 08:41:47 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 1/21/2015 12:19 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
The Emacs D-Mode will only improve if people provide bug
reports and
fixes. A number of people are doing this for their "pain
points". If the
Emacs D-Mode is substandard for you, can you at least submit
issues
presenting the problems.
I wonder why software companies still make it impossible to
submit bug reports. For example, google:
"submit windows movie maker bug report"
Click on "Reporting and solving computer problems - Windows":
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/reporting-and-solving-computer-problems
Note that there is actually no way to report a problem to
Microsoft, in spite of what the headings say.
Heh, considering Bill Gates couldn't even figure out how to
_download_ Movie Maker a decade ago, you're way ahead of the
game: ;)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/
I find this utterly baffling. Why make it so difficult to
report a bug? Microsoft has always been like this, the only way
I've ever been able to submit a bug report was if I had a
friend on the inside who'd carry it in for me.
This is probably why Windows Movie Maker is such a buggy
program. It hangs constantly, generates corrupt files when
creating a movie file longer than 2G (about 2 hours), etc.
Probably because Microsoft has so many millions of users that
their bug tracker would be awash with noise. Google allows
anybody with a google account to post bugs or comment on them for
Chrome and Android, which has led to a ton of noise on their
public bug trackers, along with the benefit of a bunch of bug
reports they'd otherwise never have gotten:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list
Is it worth the tradeoff? Maybe not for them, considering the
many untriaged bugs on their trackers, which they haven't
bothered putting somebody on filtering.
