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Bug trackers and kernel development

Bug trackers and kernel development

Posted Jul 21, 2003 4:26 UTC (Mon) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Bug trackers and kernel development by melauer
Parent article: Bug trackers and kernel development

Multiple bug reports from different users is a different story, of course

No, they hate that too. I know I do. It's like having your coding failure or debugging failure repeatedly thrown up to you. That's where a working bug database is nice. It allows a user to see that the problem is already being worked on and leave the developer to do it in peace.

As a user, I also use bug tracking systems to save time reporting bugs to a project that doesn't fix them. I browse the open bugs and if I see a lot of attention being paid to bugs, I go ahead and take the time to gather information and type in in. If I see a lot of ancient reports with no followup, I don't bother.


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