On 1 September 2014 17:11, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > >> d. making me create an account in order to submit the report > > > Hmm, this is actually an argument in favour of migrating our issue tracking > to github, as people are more likely to have an account there. > > >> The end result of all this is I very rarely submit bug reports anymore. If >> the maker makes it hard for me to submit one, I infer they don't want to >> hear about bug reports, so why bother? >> >> (I also cannot recall any vendor actually fixing a bug I reported, EVER, >> in 30 years.) > > > This is my experience too, unless you count Digital Mars =) > > >> Bottom line is, if someone wants to submit a patch via bugzilla, or even >> email, we should be accommodating, or at least not blow him off. I've often >> added Bugzilla issues for things I've received via email. > > > Generally, patches in bugzilla just rot. Letting potential contributors > think their work won't be wasted if they submit it to bugzilla would most > likely lead to disappointment. > > Copy-pasting a bug report into bugzilla is luckily a much less involved > process than testing, presenting, updating and arguing for a pull request.
People have sent patches / raised bugs directly to me in the past. Now *that* is rot. I always forward them onto bugzilla because at least then it's in a place where: 1) More than one person can read it, and potentially act upon it. 2) Much better todo list than searching through thousands upon thousands of emails. :)
