Barbie wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:17:41PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Ick. I hope I'm missing something obvious maybe? > > The bit where I get flamed. Again. Thanks.
You're welcome. :) Oh, you're in a hellish spot, I realize. And it sucks. Thank you very much for putting so much work into it. I realize it's in a transitional period, and commenting on works-in-progress can be annoying, but I wanted to give an honest report so the final interface comes out well. The timing sucks, but hey, failure reports drive development, right? ;) Where do I send the beer? > Can you explain how you survived previously when testers would wait > several days before testing distributions? When you'd get a trickle of > reports? It wasn't that long ago. Having no obvious indication that there was a problem, the failure mode from my POV being silence, I had no idea any of that was happening. So I was ignorant (see also: bliss). ;) If there was some invisible, backend snafu that got fixed, thank you very much. >> Additionally, I no longer get immediate reports, so I have to wait until the >> end of the day to fix a problem. > > They'll be sent out early morning (~2am) UK time, so should be waiting > in you inbox first think in the morning. Ok, I have to wait until the beginning of the next day to fix the problem. -- Defender of Lexical Encapsulation
