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 release a "bug" - I personally would want as many developers know about the issues on beta, so that they can get stuck in and help..... But perhaps you are right.... a separate list for beta testers might be useful....not sure if everybody want to subscribe to another mailing list...... John Powell wrote: > 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 list to be > an excellent method of making announcements, debugging problems, not > getting duplicate problems, and getting large numbers of people to look > for and try to narrow down obscure bugs. They tend to almost run > themselves. It also keeps people interested as they see progress and > jump in where they can help. > > Just a suggestion. > > JP > > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:17, Julian Luton wrote: > >>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 would stop this >>endless spam on devinfo ;-) >>All the best, >>Julian Luton >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: 13 August 2002 05:32 >>To: Charlie Brady; Greg J. Zartman >>Cc: Devinfo >>Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reporting bugs (was Re: bug posting? [was >>[5.6] unable to login to) >> >> >> >>>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 >>> >>before). >> >>>This wastes even more of our time. >>> >>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. >> >> Les Mikesell >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>-- >>Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues >>Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To >>unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives >>by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org >> >> >>-- >>Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues >>Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org >> >> >> > > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- Regards Brandon Friedman Cell:083 408 7840 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bfconsult.co.za -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
