On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 05:48:37PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:f867cc5a71fc42b7b9f90fbb44692...@trevorlaptop...
> >
> >>We expect the Bug Squad to test on the latest development release.
> >
> >OK.  I see one of the actions for a Bug Squad member
> >is to generate a png file demonstrating the problem.

Overall, the task of the Bug Squad is to make sure that a claimed
bug is a real problem, and not just a user error.

> >So I was wrong - we _do_ expect them to do this research.
> >Presumably they should forward the report to -dev if the
> >bug does not show in the latest GUB release.
> 
> The original report said "does not work with lates git Lilypond
> 2.13.35 but works on 2.13.34-1".  So my interpretation of this is
> that there is no bug on any release that most Bug Squad members
> could test to or generate output from.

Correct.  To emphasize this point, we absolutely do not expect any
Bug Squad member to compile source code.

> So nothing for a Bug Squad member to do

Not quite -- you can (and should) mark such issues as Invalid as
soon as they appear.
1) it wasn't added by a Bug Squad member or developer
2) it's not clearly a real bug.

Two strikes and you're out.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham

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