On Friday 04 November 2005 09:44 pm, ffrr wrote: > Greg Estabrooks wrote: > > A Clear Mythbug should be entered into trac. Preferrably a bug that > > exists in latest SVN. Noone wants to waste time trying to track down a > > described bug to find out that it was infact fixed months ago :) > > Can I venture something here? Advice, strongly given here, is to only > use 18.1, i.e. a released version. Those who have not, like Knoppmyth, > and the PLF rpms, have been taken to task for it. How, then, can users > report bugs? There is NO way for them to know what's in the latest > SVN. Wouldn't a developer be aware of, or be easily able to check, > whether a reported bug had yet been fixed since the last release?
Nono - *Users* can use SVN. That's encouraged, as long as they know what they're getting in to. It's when people release packages that don't even acknowledge the fact that it's a SVN checkout that I get really annoyed. Then a user is using SVN without even knowing it, and that's a really bad thing. > I know you said 'preferably' but I'm afraid this will seldom be the case > for the great majority of users. Or am I wrong, and is everyone running > late SVN builds? In my experience, the people that report the best bugs are using current SVN builds. It's not that big of a deal if someone repots something that's already been fixed, it just saves us a lot of time if the reporter checks to see if it's been fixed first. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
