Need help
Jack Applegame via Digitalmars-d-announce
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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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