Braden McDaniel wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Brade
No I can't say I've ever heard developers say such as above, but I've
tried to use software created by developers that didn't think about end
Users. <smile>
Glad to here it!
and as for the Yahoo comment I was being self-defacing. I've been using
a computer since 1983.
Started out on an Apple II (although I did have to deal with Epson
Equity's, and IBM P2 and such).
My Current Computer is a Mac G4-500. So I know something about computers.
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