https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15331
--- Comment #4 from Chris Wright <[email protected]> --- > No I wont. If you're leaving it to the other person to file the new bug, you could perhaps leave it to them to resolve the issue as invalid. There's far less chance of a real problem getting lost that way. > It's rather up to you, "next time" to take a moment to ask for a clarification First, I'm choosing to spend my time to write up a bug report to improve D. If you are interested in the success of D, that goal would be poorly served by adding roadblocks to others attempting to improve it -- unless filtering out erroneous bugs has already proven onerous. Has it? If so, I'll gladly volunteer a couple hours a week toward verifying and reproducing bugs so that others who are less attached to D can do less legwork up front. Second, you're asking me to take hours of wall time, not a moment. It means I have to make a newsgroup post, which is exactly as much work as filing a bug, then remember to go back to the newsgroup after a few hours, then, if nobody's responded, file a bug. That remembering to file a bug part is nontrivial; it means I'll fail to report a decent fraction of issues I identify. (And if someone responded on the newsgroup after I submitted an issue, you would likely still be snippy at me, leaving me with a dilemma about how long to wait between asking about a problem and filing the bug.) Third, the main thrust of your newsgroup argument was that you found that an issue had already been reported. I can very easily search bugzilla for the string "json" and browse through the bugs that have already been reported. (And I did, because it's the right thing to do.) Your example was for something that's somewhat harder to search for. So your example was poor. Fourth, I frequently see Andrei and Walter telling people to file bugs for issues rather than reporting them to the newsgroup. I'm going with their suggestions rather than yours. --
