I'm not quite clear on the significance of that beginning, but my initial interpretation is to take it quite badly.
I apologize for that. One should never attempt humor with people you don't know.
with bug 541965 (atan2 arguments),
Never heard of that bug. Just happened to see one go by that I thought I could debug. Sorry.
Assuming we are now talking exclusively about bug 530891, as a bug chaser my first duty is to confirm that the bug is valid, i.e. is the claim of "wrong" behaviour truly "wrong". That means I first must check the spec to see what is "right", so I need to look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-element-available.
Yeah, I did that too. I would sure want a second opinion before infecting the code base with mine, though, so I don't see that I could/should have saved you (or someone) that effort.
For a small change, just a reference to the line and the suggested change is sufficient. For something more complex, use "diff -c" to generate a file which can be attached to either the bug report, or to the mailing list post.
Thanks -- I will try to do that next time.
It's also useful to check whether the function is actually checked by any of the regression tests (in this case it is, by tests/extensions/list.xsl).
Couldn't follow your logic there. Seems like you already know that if it is checked by any regression tests, the tests were not sufficient to identify the bug. I would have assumed the logical thing to do is add a regression test, but I didn't see any defined process for doing that, or I would have been happy to do so (well, I guess the original bug submission pretty much supplies the regression test, but I suppose there is other clerical work to plug it into the existing regression testing framework, etc.).
So, now the bug is closed, and I have spent somewhere between a half-hour to an hour of time that I could have spent on any of several other projects that I am actively involved with.
Thanks for the detailed post, which has removed at least a couple of points of ignorance that would impede someone like me from contributing. _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
