* Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> [2020-12-11 11:01]: > > From: Samuel Wales <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:30:01 -0700 > > Cc: [email protected], Adrien Brochard <[email protected]> > > > > (as an analogy, if you go to a doctor who does not treat you, you will > > not go back to that doctor. but the doctor might think that you were > > cured because you did not go back. this is a serious problem in > > medicine.) > > But since we are not talking about one person, but many different > persons, it is still surprising that we don't get such bug reports, > because surely some of these persons may not know or assume up front > that these problems are unlikely to be fixed. It isn't like there's a > secret cabal of people who spread the idea that these problems are > unlikely to be fixed and therefore shouldn't be reported. The law or > large numbers should have won here. It is surprising that it didn't.
When I was using Emacs on Redhat Linux back in 1999, if I remember well it was crashing in each session. And I have never reported those many many bugs neither to Redhat neiter to Emacs development. There were various versions of Emacs and I coped with it. Often I used other editors. Then when I started using Debian GNU/Linux I have not been reporting bugs probably for few years. I have just assumed it is not working well, but that I could do something about it was not clear. There will be whole series of users not being aware of it. Then later I have been reporting all Debian GNU/Linux related bugs only to Debian, straight there, and nowhere else. I have not even know that there is some central way to report bug. I remember that under Help there was menu item to report Emacs bug, but I have not used that interface, rather Debian interface. Maybe maintainers reported to upstream. Long time passed until I started reporting to Emacs and this is probably because I switched to Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre and somebody directed me. Otherwise I was reporting to https://www.hyperbola.info anything related to Hyperbola packages as I was used from Debian this way. Look: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=emacs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs-common https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs-el https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs-gtk https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs-lucid https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs-nox https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs25 https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?string=emacs&project=0&do=index&type%5B%5D=&sev%5B%5D=&pri%5B%5D=&due%5B%5D=&reported%5B%5D=&cat%5B%5D=&status%5B%5D=open&percent%5B%5D=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto= https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=emacs&project=1&search_in_comments=1&search_in_details=1&search_for_all=1&type%5B%5D=&sev%5B%5D=&pri%5B%5D=&due%5B%5D=&reported%5B%5D=&cat%5B%5D=&status%5B%5D=open&percent%5B%5D=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=&do=index https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu?field.searchtext=emacs&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=
