How much time will D1 be around?

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Christopher Wright wrote:
>
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Christopher Wright <dhasenan at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Walter Bright wrote:
>> > > > Christopher Wright wrote:
>> > > > > Even better, will the large body of existing bugs ever be fixed?
>> > > > 10 to 20 get fixed every release.
>> > > True, sorry. I just tend to run into a few of them consistently that
>> > > haven't
>> > > gotten in yet.
>> >
>> > You've gotten Walter's attention now, so you might as well make the
>> > most of it and mention which ones it is you're running into.  Don't
>> > waste the opportunity!
>> >
>> > --bb
>>
>> Everyone has a list of three or four bugs, and most of these lists are
>> disjoint.
>>
>> Right now, I'm trying to solve one on my own, without much luck. My pestering
>> Walter is just adding to the problem, so I will stop.
>
> There actually is something to the squeaky wheel in this case.  With
> limited time and resources, those bugs identified as causing grief have
> added weight.  Obviously it's not quite that cut and dry, but asking for
> specific bugs to be fixed amongst the pile of bugs _does_ increase the
> chances they'll be part of the next set.
>
> Make a list of your top 2 or 3 and re-iterate why they're your top bugs..
> can't hurt (much).

Exactly what I was in the process of writing, though not as well as
you've put it.

Walter's pretty good at fixing the bugs he knows are really getting in
the way of people getting their work done.  (Unless it happens to be
one of the big monster bugs like "fix forward referencing".)

--bb