Re: Reporting bugs

Chas. Owens wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 17:20, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: Chas. Owens wrote: 2009/4/28 Gunnar Hjalmarsson : snip I believe the standard response is "patches are welcome." Are they? The number of open or "new" bugs at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/ makes me fear something e

Re: Reporting bugs

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: snip > You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report - I > did so in the above example, btw - so I still not quite get the distinction. > Are the bug reports handled by a different group of people compared to p5p? s

Re: Reporting bugs

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 19:07, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > snip >> You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report - I >> did so in the above example, btw - so I still not quite get the distinction. >> Are the bug reports

Re: Reporting bugs

Chas. Owens wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 19:07, Chas. Owens wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: snip You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report - I did so in the above example, btw - so I still not quite get the distinction. Are the b

Re: Reporting bugs

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:18, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Chas. Owens wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 19:07, Chas. Owens wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson >>> wrote: >>> snip You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report >>>

Re: Reporting bugs

Chas. Owens wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:18, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: I agree that perldiag says all that needs to be said. But a common way to work with perldiag is to look up cryptic error or warning messages when needed rather than using the diagnostics pragma. Unfortunately the mess

Reporting bugs (was: package variables)

Chas. Owens wrote: 2009/4/28 Gunnar Hjalmarsson : snip I believe the standard response is "patches are welcome." Are they? The number of open or "new" bugs at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/ makes me fear something else. ( I did submit a bug report a few weeks ago: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Publi

Re: Reporting bugs (was: package variables)

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 17:20, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Chas. Owens wrote: >> >> 2009/4/28 Gunnar Hjalmarsson : >> snip > > I believe the standard response is "patches are welcome." >>> >>> Are they? The number of open or "new" bugs at >>> http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/ >>> makes me fe