Proper way to raise awareness of a bug
monkyyy
crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 17:36:07 UTC 2024
On Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 16:59:48 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
> Hi D
>
> There is a bug listed in the Bugzilla tracking tool that
> affected me the other day,
> [15526](https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15526). It's
> not a big problem, just an unexpected issue and seems easy to
> fix... by someone familiar with Phobos.
>
> What is the etiquette around Bugzilla usage in the community?
> Would it be appropriate or inappropriate to get an account on
> issues.dlang.org just to post a comment on a bug stating that
> it affect my code.
>
> I haven't done so because I'm presuming you want to keep the
> issue tracker clean and not let the peanut gallery run amok,
> thus comments that don't directly affect a patch are
> inappropriate. Is that true?
No method has a high success rate, but Id suggest making the most
surprizing example you can and posting it to the discord
> etiquette
Consider discarding etiquette, my bug reports to fixed rate is
20:1; while I think mine is among the worse, the bug pile is huge.
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