Red Drag Diva wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:14:24 -0400, > Stephan Golux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I have reported a bug one month ago, it seems pretty serious to me, and > : has received no attention at all. It isn't an ego thing, I just can't > : believe that no one else is experiencing this problem. Summary - tab > : stops are displayed completey wrong in the mail/news read window, and if > : you cut and paste them, they are handled wrong as well. I feel like the > : bug I reported MUST be a dupe, but I can't find the bug it is a dupe > : of... can anyone help me on this? Thanks. > : URL for the bug in question is: > : http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144230 > > > I think "When will my bug be fixed? It's been *ages*!" qualifies as a FAQ. > > A lot of people don't understand that filing a bug is NOT like getting a > tech support trouble ticket - it's filing a bug on an open-source program. > No-one *owes* you an answer. > > (Many people don't understand this point and get snarky, as if they're > entitled to others' efforts just for having asked. But I know you lot > wouldn't think that way.) > > See http://mozilla.org/bugs/ for the process. > > You file a bug and it's UNCONFIRMED. The next stage is for someone to come > along and test it, to see if they can reproduce it. If they can, it's > likely to become NEW. Only then does it have any chance of serious > developer attention. Maybe. > > Good, clear, reproducible bug reports and test cases help immeasurably. > I did a lot of testing last year - spend an hour trying the day's new bugs, > see if I could reproduce them. Giving them something easy to work with is > *good*. > > Your mileage will vary with reproducibility. I filed one bug (139271) on > display glitches with this laptop which happen a *lot*, but no-one else can > duplicate them (particular laptop hardware), so it's still UNCONFIRMED. > Realistically, I can't expect otherwise, just hope it happens for someone > else. > > > I welcome any corrections to details of the above. > >
Hmmmm. I must have been unclear on what I wrote. I am most emphatically not asking "When will my bug be fixed?" I know that bugs get fixed or not based on many of the paramters you stated. I posted, as a conscientious member of the Mozilla community, because this bug seems to be enormous, and yet no one has even responded to the report with a "Works for Me". I wonder if it is a dupe, and a spirited discussion of the technical issues resides in another bug. And I wonder if someone in this forum knows of that discussion and could point me in the right direction -- god knows I have searched for the dupe and been unable to find it. This would seem to be a reasonable use for this forum, n'est-ce-pas? I would not like to think of myself as "Snarky". Not my intention. This thread seems already to have shifted to a discussion of a different bug, perhaps also valuable, but I would like to discuss the rendering of tab stops in the mail/news window. Once again, any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
