Hi everyone, some e-mails to the mailing list reporting bugs (and some with patches or suggested changes), seem to never have a response. I myself have a couple of such e-mails, marked as unread, for when I have the time to do something about them. I feel that these bugs will just be lost, which is even worse for the ones that come with a patch attached.
I believe that this could be better managed if users reported them on the octave-forge bug tracker, which we do have at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2888&atid=102888 . If this was to be used, I see 3 things that could be done: 1 - the bugs octave-forge page ( http://octave.sourceforge.net/bugs.html ) would have to be changed so as to instruct users to use the bug tracker rather than the mailing list. 2 - configure the bug tracker to send an e-mail to the mailing list when a bug is reported or changed 3 - configure the bug tracker to allow anonymous submissions. I think not having to create an e-mail is a big advantage of reporting bugs by e-mail. As such, it would be nice to also have on the instructions to report bugs, that creating an account is optional. This probably won't get bugs fixed faster but hopefully they won't be lost. I'm in no way, trying to say that we should be fixing these bugs, just trying to come up with a way to not lose these reports and patches. Really hope that no one takes offense to it, Carnë Draug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks & Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
