Interesting words from gcc.info

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:01:10PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:48:26AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > The words below were written by Richard Stallman, I believe:
>> > 
>> > Reporting Bugs
>> > **************
>> > 
>> >    Your bug reports play an essential role in making GCC reliable.
>> > 
>> >    When you encounter a problem, the first thing to do is to see if it
>> > is already known.  *Note Trouble::.  If it isn't known, then you should
>> > report the problem.
>> > 
>> >    Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem,
>> > or it may not.  (If it does not, look in the service directory; see
>> > *Note Service::.)  In any case, the principal function of a bug report
>> > is to help the entire community by making the next version of GCC work
>> > better.  Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of GCC.
>> > 
>> >    Since the maintainers are very overloaded, we cannot respond to every
>> > bug report.  However, if the bug has not been fixed, we are likely to
>> > send you a patch and ask you to tell us whether it works.
>> > 
>> > Interesting philosophy.
>> 
>> Any part in particular?  (I'm wondering what you're commenting on.)
>
>That's what I was thinking.  Just wait 'till he reads the GNU Manifesto ;-)

I was commenting on the general philosophy of bug reporting.  Few, if
any, of the principles outlined above are in evidence in this mailing
list.

cgf

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