| Felix Miata wrote: | > What are they for except to report on their behavior, confirm fixes, | > find bugs? I don't remember any better behavior from milestones. | They are mainly to be used to verify individual fixes so we can ensure | they are fixed before a milestone.
So what we do post does to some extent provide needed information? Or doesn't it? | Honestly, unless any of you guys are running Windows, a lot of the | problem reports you give us are not very useful. Which means some of them are very useful? Some are somewhat useful? We are all totally wasting our time posting? | Our main goal is to make the OS/2 browser runb like the Windows browser. | So the best thing anyone can do is run Windows and OS/2, run the same | build on both, and say "this is different between Windows and OS/2." I already spend too much time at a PC without using windoze. I'd have to be on someone's payroll first. Besides, after many years using OS/2, windoze is just to painful. ;-) If many people doing identical browsings, emailings, Usenetting on multiple PC's simultaneously is what is really needed, it's no wonder the trek to 1.0 is taking so long. | As far as the hangs, crashes, etc. go, we very seldom see reproduction | scenarios for these so we can't reproduce them. | Bugs like "Warpzilla hangs" and "warpzilla crashes" are not very useful. | There are tons of these that are machine specific, and with OS/2 having | no useful tools for doing stack traces when you crash and things like | that, we don't have much to look at. | When you put on top of that the fact that most people are running FixPak | 15 (which incidentally is NOT the most current FixPak and hence NOT what | we test on), as well as private PMMERGE fixes, test kernels, tons of WPS | enhancers, etc., there is no way to know what is causing any particular | problem. So you you want us to include fixlevel, kernel version, chipset & CPU in each post, and preferably use the most recent OS fixlevel without interim fixes or not post at all? | What we need is other people building and debugging the browser. That's | how the other builds are so successful. The Warpzilla project has tons | of users/testers but very few developers. -- "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy." Samuel Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
