bug reporting
Adrian Aichner wrote:
See
http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html
which is under
Troubleshooting XEmacs
...
o Debugging
has this at the end:
See, it's the "at the end" part that is the problem.
Please put a "Reporting Bugs" link on the top-level index.html,
like every other project in the world does, instead of having
it N clicks and N scrollbar-bonks away. It should be right
there at the front, not buried in the end-matter.
And it shouldn't be buried under "debugging." I was not interested
in debugging xemacs: I already know how to do that. I was interested
in telling you about a bug in xemacs. Those are not the same thing.
Note that typing "reporting bugs" into the search field yeilds no
obviously-useful results either.
It's like you're going out of your way to make this difficult.
o Help->Send Bug Report...
o M-x report-emacs-bug
If you don't have a working XEmacs or net-utils package, then please
send mail to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org by other means.
Please write us, if you are interested in selecting, installing and/or
maintaining a new Bug Tracking System for XEmacs.
Please write me if you're interested in kissing my ass. I didn't say
you need to write a new bug reporting system, I said you need a mailto:
link on your entry page. Or is the HTML for that too complicated for
you?
Jamie> Why does "Help/Send Bug Report" in this
version of xemacs try to
Jamie> send mail to xemacs-beta(a)cvs.xemacs.org, which bounces?
This was a screwup of the shipped net-utils package which is also
documented in above page:
Most people would consider bugs that make it impossible to report bugs
to be reason enough to do a patch release.
Though getting whoever runs cvs.xemacs.org to make that mail address
work would be far easier and more sensible.
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Jamie Zawinski
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