WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-12-07 at 14:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > If you want bugs to be
> > addressed, Fedora Bugzilla is the right place for that.
> 
> That reminds me - time to take the monthly look at my bugzilla,
> at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160940>
> =======================================
> Bugzilla Bug 160940 ? 
> anaconda bombs out on Sony Picturebook while "Reading package information"
> =======================================
> 
> No, no progress.
> Might as well have written to the Pope.
I heard he responds though.

> 
> Only response I got was to ask for the Traceback,
> which I had already given, in full, in the original report.
> 
> I posted another bugzilla on the kdesktop site,
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718>.
> Again, no response except from others saying they had the same problem.
> Someone wrote to me with a patch, which worked (after re-compiling xorg).
> I reported this, but got no response.
> I wrote to half-a-dozen people mentioned in the source,
> but none replied.
> 
> Then, about a year later the patch was applied,
> again without mention in the bugzilla.
> 
> So I'm afraid my experience is that posting a bugzilla
> is unlikely to be a rewarding experience.
> 
> Also the way the bugzilla site is arranged is like something out of the ark.
> Someone ought to ask themselves,
> "Is this the best way of organising a bug-reporting site?
> Will people find it simple to report bugs?
> Will people find it simple to search through the site."
> 
> As far as I am concerned, the answer is "No. No. No."
> 
> 
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> Timothy Murphy  
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