bugs magnet, what I really think is that we could leave w/out that magnet as we're already full of bug items...
Bug *report* magnet. Bug reports do not create bugs, they help eliminate them. You want it to be bug-free? I want it to be bug-free. But if bug reports annoy, then developer reponses tend to be short and bad-tempered, and people are discouraged from *reporting* bugs. I have seen several Gnash bugs in CVS that I haven't reported: gross, ugly, highly-visible, large-scale misrendering of things, in some or all versions. But until I take bug-fixing work on board (can't at present, already overloaded) I keep quiet about them - for exactly this reason. I guess it stems from a bad experience with a certain developer who asked me to test his "free software" product. I did systematically over a period months on a wide range of hardware, found and reported a hundred bugs before I stopped, and he hated me for it... because his desire was to have an empty bug list so as to look good in his free software career, not a bug free product. You have to make a mature person's choice about this: about what you really want. M _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
