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On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 01:53, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> All I ever hear or read about is people complaining about bugs or |
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> stability issues or an ebuild problem. Granted I'm not complaining about |
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> this, this is good... we need to know this. But there is one thing |
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> missing... I go to http://bugs.gentoo.org and sort through the bugs and |
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> there are hardly any bug reports for the problems people say. |
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> |
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> Here's a couple things I'd like to see our users do as far as bugs |
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> 1) Fill out bug reports @ http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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> 2) Provide us with all the necessary details... for example... if you |
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> just tell me that libfoo's latest ebuild doesn't compile for you. That |
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> is definetly not enough detail. Provide the FULL version including our |
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> ebuild revision, such as libfoo-1.0.1-r1.ebuild is what we'd like to see. |
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> 3) You NEED to tell us which version compiler you are using. |
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> 4) You need to tell us your USE flags and your CFLAGS |
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> 5) Provide us with a copy and paste of the exact error message. |
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> 6) Any other data you feel might be revelant. |
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> |
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> If you do all that more bugs will be fixed and they will hopefully be |
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> fixed faster. |
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> |
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> And if the person who sent me the patch against the latest version of |
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> pcmcia-cs over IRC in a /query while I was gone is here.... please fill |
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> out a bug report and lemme know what it fixes and include it. My battery |
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> on the laptop ran out while I was gone. |
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> |
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> In conclusion, you need to submit your bugs and concerns in a reliable |
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> fashion so that they can be properly addressed... the only way to do |
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> that is to fill out a bug report. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Doug Goldstein |
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> Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1) |
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> Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |
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Writing report wizard that will collect needed information and submit |
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it to the bugzilla might help ;-). |