Re: bug reporting

Jamie> Adrian Aichner wrote: Jamie> See, it's the "at the end" part that is the problem. Jamie> Please put a "Reporting Bugs" link on the top-level index.html, Jamie> like every other project in the world does, instead of having Jamie> it N clicks and N scrollbar-bonks away. It should be right Jamie> there at the front, not buried in the end-matter. I'm afraid we will not be able to put everything people might need at the front. The sidebar is an attempt at making information more accessible. Jamie> And it shouldn't be buried under "debugging." I was not Jamie> interested in debugging xemacs: I already know how to do Jamie> that. I was interested in telling you about a bug in Jamie> xemacs. Those are not the same thing. I agree. Jamie> Note that typing "reporting bugs" into the search field Jamie> yeilds no obviously-useful results either. I'll see what I can do about this. Jamie> It's like you're going out of your way to make this difficult. Jamie> Please write me if you're interested in kissing my ass. I I'm not interested. Jamie> didn't say you need to write a new bug reporting system, I Jamie> said you need a mailto: link on your entry page. Or is the Jamie> HTML for that too complicated for you? Too bad I never met you, you see to be a real entertaining guy. 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? Jamie> Most people would consider bugs that make it impossible to Jamie> report bugs to be reason enough to do a patch release. Jamie> Though getting whoever runs cvs.xemacs.org to make that Jamie> mail address work would be far easier and more sensible. Too bad we hadn't thought of this eaerlier. I'll see what I can do. Jamie> -- Jamie> Jamie Zawinski Jamie> jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ Jamie> jwz(a)dnalounge.com http://www.dnalounge.com/ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/