Karmic Koala open for development

Posted Apr 30, 2009 23:29 UTC (Thu) by jmspeex (subscriber, #51639)
In reply to: Karmic Koala open for development by muwlgr
Parent article: Karmic Koala open for development

Yes, I've noticed the Long Time to get Support too. I used to report the Ubuntu bugs I noticed, but then I realized that it had zero impact, so I stopped. If I'm going to spend time reporting bugs, it has to be for a project that fixes them. When I file a gcc or LyX bug, I know it gets addressed, so I make sure to file a report. Unfortunately, for many projects, I know it gets ignored.

It's not always adressed, but at least it's not marked invalid!

Posted May 2, 2009 20:36 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

Take my own "pet bug" in GCC: PR3187. It was reposrted 2001-06-14. Lifetime ago. And it's STILL unfixed. But at least it's there and I check it's status from time to time. Hopefully it'll be fixed at some point.

In Ubuntu I'm forced to constantly renew my bugs if they are not fixed - since they are constantly closed as "duplicate", "invalid", or some other ridiculous mark.

But of course to expect that any minor bug (and any bug with package from universe is minor by definition) will be fixed in three days is strange...

It's not always adressed, but at least it's not marked invalid!

Posted May 5, 2009 11:53 UTC (Tue) by jmspeex (subscriber, #51639) [Link]

Well, so far every time I reported a bug in gcc, a developer made sure to verify it within a few days, even if the fix took longer. Contrast with Ubuntu, where nothing happens for a year, and then it gets closed because there's information missing or something (without anyone asking for more information). Especially interesting was this bug in Speex (which I maintain), which was causing one of the tools to segfault on startup on amd64. The bug was reported before the 6.06 release, it was already fixed upstream in a later version, and someone even posted a (2-liner) patch. Well, it took about a year of me harassing the developers for them to patch it.