--- Uros Bizjak wrote:
> At this point, I wonder what is wrong with Bugzilla,
> that those
> programmers don't fill a proper bug report. If there
> is a problem with
> GCC, that is so annoying to somebody, I think that
> at least developers
> could be informed about it via their standard
> channels of communication.
> If there is a specific problem, at least it can be
> analysed properly and
> perhaps some actions could be taken to fix it. If
> the problem is indeed
> _that_ big (usually, it is not!), then a workaround
> could be suggested -
> and this bug, together with a workaround is
> documented in bugzilla for
> others, until the problem is properly solved
> (usually with a testcase).
> 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;)
>
> There is no problem that Bugzilla is un-intuitive,
> it is far from that.
> The users don't fill bugreports because they are
> afraid of filling an
> invalid report or a duplicate. I can't speak for gcc
> bugmasters, but it
> looks to me that dupes and invalid reports are not
> that big problem.
t if people sit 3000 km/miles/whatever apart
> ;)
>
You can search Bugzilla as well, so you do not fill in
duplicate bug report.
As long as the bug report can be easily reproduced, it
will probably not get made invalid.
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