Need help

Jack Applegame via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 16 03:01:38 PDT 2017


On Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 07:54:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Yes, though I'd generally try in the main newsgroup first. 
> Regardless, the biggest thing is to make sure that it's in 
> bugzilla. That often is not sufficient, but without that, the 
> bug is in serious risk of being forgotten, and whenever anyone 
> brings up a bug and complains that it isn't fix and hasn't put 
> it in bugzilla, Walter basically tells them that it doesn't 
> exist until it's in bugzilla, because if it isn't reported, 
> then he and the rest of the compiler devs aren't going to know 
> about it.
>
> But the reality of the matter is that getting ahold of anyone 
> in particular in the newsgroups can be hit or miss, and the 
> number of compiler devs isn't huge. So, sometimes, you have to 
> bring something up multiple times for it be seen by the right 
> people. And unfortunately, the nature of 
> newsgroup/forum/mailing list discussions is often essentially 
> bikeshedding in that the topics that need real attention often 
> get relatively little attention, because they're hard and/or 
> not many people know enough to get involved, whereas topics 
> that don't take much expertise and easy to have an opinion on 
> get a lot of attention. So, solitary posts on important topics 
> sometimes get missed.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
Ok. I'll consider. Thanks.


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