In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Developers being developers do not want to put a bug complaint against
> another developer. because If say I was a developer and I placed a bug
> report, and the developer of the part that had the bug found out; then
> the devoper with the buggy code would say well if it is not good enough
> I pull out my part and go home. And I will not work with that person
> ever again that submitted that report, on no project.
Phil, do you have a shred of evidence that this has actually happened on
this project? Ever? Any open source project?
Because it strikes me as ridiculous. Your recent postings suggest a
paranoid vision of developers as psychotic elitists who would sooner be
damned than cater to Users.
> If you allow regular yahoo's like me to submit reports then the
> developer will say "hey even that dumb imbecile found a bug" on my
> project I must try to find out.
More likely scenario:
Response to bug from another developer:
"Hey, someone who probably has at least half a clue thinks there's
something wrong with my code. I probably ought to take a look at it."
Response to bug from a regular yahoo:
"Hey, some dumb imbecile thinks he found a bug. Most likely the problem
can be fixed by replacing the user. I have better things to do, like look
at that bug a developer reported."
(Yes, I am deliberately feeding your paranoia. :-)
You might find this startling, but most developers I've met know they are
fallible and *like* the idea of peer review.
Braden
