On 2/25/06, David Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25/02/2006, Garrett Hylltun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and > Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote stuff. > > Sorry to others for some repetitious elements in here but I see a > couple of basic themes in the offerings from Garrett and Gregory > (principally the former) which I wish to answer.
Hear, hear! What a splendid email. I agree 100%. And this is where the bug voting comes into play. As someone mentioned earlier in this debate, it is possible to find and report a bug so trivial or so easy to bypass, that the interest in fixing it is zero. On the other hand, I find bugs that are important to me, and I see someone else has reported it earlier. I still like to be able to log the fact that this is important to me, even if I can't be the original reporter. > > Yet, every now and then, I see a window appear on my machine. It > says: "Would you like to report this problem to Apple?" Yes, and if it appears for Safari or any other Apple app, that's fine and I send off the report, but if it's Photoshop or something else, I see no point in sending the report to Apple, but I have no way of logging the problem with the actual developer. To digress slightly, I think the reason Rev appears to have so many bugs is because it is so versatile. We all use Rev in different ways to do widely different projects. I ignore some bugs because I never do the things they refer to. Others find the same bugs to be project blockers. Then again, some people use Rev in a way that the development team never imagined. That's great, but it means they will be the first to strike bugs in those areas. By comparison, testing a single-use application like a word-processor should be simple, but they still crash :-) I wonder is the Rev team doing itself a disservice by letting all Rev users access the bug reports? While most people seem to value the chance to point out problems and influence future versions, some people regard a public bug list as an admission of failure. Maybe it would be better to restrict bugzilla to members of the improve-rev list or make it by invitation only. Just a few random thoughts, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution