Uros Bizjak wrote: > At this point, I wonder what is wrong with Bugzilla, that those > programmers don't fill a proper bug report.
In my experience, people don't file Bugzilla reports because it feels impersonal and unresponsive. The form is not very user-friendly (as in friendly to users of GCC, not its developers.) I have some thoughts on GCC customer support that would likely help both developers and users, but I need to get my ducks in a row before I start them quacking. > I guess that these persons don't know that bugreports are extremmely > important for the development of gcc. The users themself are > actaully a QA department of open source development;) Asking users to do QA makes for poor relationships and quality, whether we're talking about proprietary or free software. Ask anyone who purchased a game like Dungeon Lords... ;) Now, you can argue that people's expectations are unrealistic, and I will agree with you, but we all know that the ideal situation is only rarely reflected in reality. >> However, the atmosphere of GCC development is... well, let's just >> say that my investment in asbestos underware has not been wasted. >> ;) >> > I would call it an atmosphere of brainstorming. Different opinions > and different point of views. The only problem is, that words can be > different if people sit 3000 km/miles/whatever apart ;) Brainstorming there may be, but certain folk in the GCC community simply like being annoying, perhaps to feed their own sense of self-importance. It is quite possible to disagree with someone without be disagreeable, as exemplified by Evandro Menezes recently. ..Scott
