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)
In reply to: It's not always adressed, but at least it's not marked invalid! by khim
Parent article: Karmic Koala open for development

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.