Bug reports [Was: Re: About Andrei's interview, part 3]

[Justin Johansson]

On 29/08/10 11:57, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2010 19:06:42 Yao G. wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:59:02 -0500, bearophile<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> Among the Bugzilla entries added by me, I suggest Don to focus his
>>> efforts on (and try to create patches for):
>>>
>>> 3971 3849 3948 3856 3825 3878 3981 3990 3999 4053 4085 4216 4349
>>> 4375 4407 4475 4625 4511 4530 4580 4664 4668 4678 4703 4733
>>>
>>> Entries in that list often don't contain normal bugs or additive
>>> enhancements.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> <g>  What stops you from creating patches for these bugs?
>
> He's too busy finding other bugs. ;)
>
> Though seriously, given the large scope of bugs that he reports, I doubt that he
> knows enough to fix very many of them. Particularly if they're compiler bugs, it
> can take a lot of knowledge about exactly how dmd, druntime, and phobos work to
> be able to come up with appropriate fixes.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Still, I think he (bearophile) is deserving of an Honorary Doctorate of
Test and Analysis given his prolific filing of D bug reports. :-)

- Justin Johansson