Gervase Markham wrote, in part: > . . . I doubt very much of use will come from your mail unless you > take each issue, search Bugzilla for matching bugs and, if you find > none, file it. No-one else is going to do this for you :-)
Actually, someone did! On the Editor newsgroup, Neil pointed to two existing bugs which cover problems I reported. I assumed that it was a pain for everyone if I created a duplicate bug, and in the past, my efforts to find an existing bug for my problem have not been 100% successful so I preferred to ask on the newsgroups if I could not find it in Bugzilla, before creating a new bug. However, I have been assured by a key developer that duplicate bugs are fine: We don't mind dups. If you don't have time to file a bug, I understand. But don't let fear of dups stop you. We keep stats on duped bugs, so it's not even wasted effort. (Frequently duped bugs are more likely to get a higher priority.) Also, dups often provide important test cases not suggested by the original bug report. So I created a new bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141983 for the problem of a space being added to each line which starts with one or more spaces, when the message is sent or saved to Drafts/Templates. I only tested it on Win2k, so if someone would like to test it on another platform, that would be handy. There's more to what I am trying to achieve than simply reporting problems. I am hoping to share information I found useful about configuration and ways of using Mozilla - which often also results in people writing back with improvements and corrections to what I wrote. For instance, the workaround for nominating arbitrary numbers of mailboxes which display the recipient's address (for Sent mail) is important to me, and no doubt to other people with years of sent mail to manage - but I have never seen it discussed anywhere. Also, since I am not steeped in the Mozilla project organisationally or in terms of programming, my perspective is of someone who approaches it freshly wanting to prove whether it meets all my requirements or not. I figure this fresh perspective, with its positive and negative elements, is useful to at least someone. A key developer has confirmed that it was useful for him. - Robin
