RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was[5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-19 Thread Paul Miller
Les, Charlie, devinfo list members, Sorry for this continuing rant on policy. --- From: Paul Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And I thought it is the right/responsibility of the developer to accept/reject/ignore any and all suggestions from the community with priority given to

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-18 Thread Les Mikesell
From: Paul Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And I thought it is the right/responsibility of the developer to accept/reject/ignore any and all suggestions from the community with priority given to developing good code. Do you think Linus incorporates every patch or even responds to all

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was[5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
From: Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, it seems to make good sense to cc devinfo with bug reports, especially on something that is alpha. On no account cc devinfo. If you do that, every followup on devinfo will open a new ticket in our bug tracking system (as we've said

Re[2]: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-13 Thread Haj
Hello Les, mardi 13 août 2002 à 15:32:18, you wrote : From: Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, it seems to make good sense to cc devinfo with bug reports, especially on something that is alpha. On no account cc devinfo. If you do that, every followup on devinfo will open a new

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-13 Thread Julian Luton
Dear All, Just a suggestion - how hard would it be to have your bug track system send devinfo a daily or weekly digest of every new bug with 5.6 in the subject line. That way we could keep a track on what is causing you guys problems and what isn't. We might even be able to help! At least it

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was[5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-13 Thread John Powell
Another suggestion. Perhaps a separate beta mailing list. This stuff clearly does not fit the purpose of the devinfo mailing list, but much of the audience is interested. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is likely to get overwhelmed with non-bugs. I have run many, many betas in my career and found a mailing

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-13 Thread Brandon Friedman
John I tend to disagree. Considering 5.6 is actually alpha/beta release, it is still under development! I can understand reporting a bug on a stable release to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but this shouldn't be the case with betas. I don't even see how you can call a problem on a development

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-13 Thread Greg J. Zartman
How do all the other beta testers avoid wasting their time dealing with the same bug if they aren't discussed publicly? I thought the point of open source development was to share this sort of thing. That was the point of my original post on this topic. Correct me if I'm wrong here

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was [5.6] unable to login to)

2002-08-12 Thread Les Mikesell
From: Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, it seems to make good sense to cc devinfo with bug reports, especially on something that is alpha. On no account cc devinfo. If you do that, every followup on devinfo will open a new ticket in our bug tracking system (as we've said here