[X] hijacked On 28 Aug., 18:44, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:22 AM, rjf <[email protected]> wrote: > > While it is, in some ethical universe, a plus to announce/share bugs, > > it is, as a > > practical matter, much less useful than one might initially believe. > > Wow, you sound a lot like the Mathematica documentation! "You > should realize at the outset that while knowing about the internals of > Mathematica may be of intellectual interest, it is usually much less > important in practice than you might at first suppose."
ROFL. I'd say *both* statements carry some truth; as always, depending on the specific context. Also, transparency (or FOI, extending to freedom of speech in some cases) is a general dilemma, with almost the same pros and cons in politics, economics, customer information etc. > > It is not clear how a user would truly use a bug list. > > With Sage, and tens of thousands of other open source programs in the > wild, there are users and a bug list, and it is visible how they are > used. Which doesn't necessarily mean that the (official) BTS is unmoderated, i.e., that any reported alleged bug will be visible to the public. > Perhaps the person gets an error message, finds it confusing, does a > *GOOGLE SEARCH*, finds that message is related to a bug, reads a > discussion of the issue, along with its current status, workarounds, > etc. I'll wager that this just happened a few tens of thousand > times with various software while I wrote this sentence. Certainly true, but I bet that in many, if not most of the cases, the vast majority of results of "naive" searches don't yield any useful information, at least not in the first place, or on the first few search result pages. [The same is unfortunately IMHO true for Sage's trac, but of course for many other systems as well.] -leif -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
