Yeah, I figured it would be an easy fix since it seemd to degrade - it worked
a few times.
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 17:57, you wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Eaon wrote:
> > Have you tried looking here:
> > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=2532 Or how about
> > this one: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=3638 I
> > believe these are the bugs you are talking about, correct? Or something
> > pretty close anyway. That they are in the bug tracking system seems to
> > be
>
> These aren't specifically the bugs. For one thing, "does nothing" is
> hardly descriptive enough to be helpful (Note: I am not saying I am not
> guilty of this from time to time myself). Also, one of them refers to 8.0
> (where rpmdrake worked fine for me). The other says 8.0 beta 1. Again,
> this is Cooker, so every time a release is made the bug might change.
>
> > ;-) ). He's just a guy, with his own way of doing things, just like any
> > one of us. I think that once a few people have discussed it on the list
> > and decided that it is indeed a software bug and not some silly
> > configuration/corrupt config file/whatever kind of issue, then the next
> > logical step is to put it in bugzilla, and wait for the fix without
> > complaining about it more to the list. That's what archives of the list
> > and
>
> I may also have not been reading the list (e.g. I missed that someone had
> reported it before), but it seems that this person who posted (to whom I
> replied) did not check to see if it had already been reported. I was not
> complaining to Odin, so much as I was frusturated from seeing the same
> bug report countless times over the past few days. I realize things take
> time to be fixed. I also realize that other people may not notice a bug
> has already been brought up. My only problem was when it gets reported
> multiple times by multiple people (including myself), then it seems to be
> getting a little out of hand.
>
> If Odin had said first time this came up that "This is a bug I'm looking
> into it." Then we'd have reason to blame for multiple posts. If someone
> had checked the list and at least said "Ok, looks like someone else has
> that bug too and already mailed the list". Here, too, we'd have someone to
> we'd have reason to blame.
>
> All this said, there is not much correlation between BugZilla and Cooker,
> sorry, because bugs from 8.0 and even 8.0 beta 1 (to whichever release
> that is referring) do not necessarily any longer apply, even if the same
> bug were to show up again after that one had been closed.
>
> I wasn't taking the opportunity to complain so much as I was wishing for
> some sort of correlation between the bugs and the list. A lot of it has to
> do with the way lists in general are set up, that people get the mail at
> varying times, so they may reply to something that has already had a
> "fixed" reply sent, but has not yet made it to their mail server at the
> time they sent their message.
>
> Maybe the best solution isn't that Mandrake need set soemthing up, but
> maybe it has more to do with cooperation between list users.
>
> OK, this email was unnecessarily long...
