Re: more details on possible bug

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3 total messages Started by JimLane Sat, 31 Oct 1992 09:31

#28

Author: JimLane
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 09:31

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*>From plate@infotek.dk Sat Oct 31 06:47:08 1992
*>Subject: Re: more details on possible bug
*>To: lane@spot.colorado.edu (JimLane)
*>
*>JimLane
*>
*>Please do not send bug reports of that size to thousands of
*>people. It's nothing more that stupid to do so.

  John Plate

  I had no idea that the bug report was going to 
  "thousands of people".  There was nothing in the
  man page that indicated it went any further than
  gcc-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu.   I now assume this is
  a large mail alias?

  If GNU seriously wants to solicit bug reports,
  some better guidelines/information should be 
  provided in the gcc man page or at least a pointer
  to the information. 

  This is the man page information I was using:

>  BUGS
>    Report bugs to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.  Bugs tend actually to be  fixed
>    if  they  can  be  isolated, so it is in your interest to report them in
>    such a way that they can be easily reproduced.
 
  Of the three direct responses I recieved to my bug
  report, two (this includes yours) were negative in
  nature.  I conmpletely support the goals and 
  accomplishments of the Free Software Foundation, but
  all in all, if it had not been for the
  positive feedback I got from Jeff Law, I would have
  told GNU to "stick their (buggy) compiler where the
  sun don't shine".

                                   JimLane

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#29

Author: Richard Stallman
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 20:25

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You did the right thing in sending the bug report.  The purpose of the
but report lists is to convey bug reports to maintainers.  Other
people are welcome to read our bug report lists as long as they don't
interfere.  Telling you to cater to them when you send bug reports
is interfering.  Pay no attention to them!

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#30

Author: Richard Stallman
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 20:25

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      Of the three direct responses I recieved to my bug
      report, two (this includes yours) were negative in
      nature.

It seems unfair to judge the FSF according to messages
sent by people who have nothing to do with the FSF.

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