On Tue, 2005-12-07 at 14:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > If you want bugs to be > > addressed, Fedora Bugzilla is the right place for that. > > That reminds me - time to take the monthly look at my bugzilla, > at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160940> > ======================================= > Bugzilla Bug 160940 ? > anaconda bombs out on Sony Picturebook while "Reading package information" > ======================================= > > No, no progress. > Might as well have written to the Pope. I heard he responds though. > > Only response I got was to ask for the Traceback, > which I had already given, in full, in the original report. > > I posted another bugzilla on the kdesktop site, > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718>. > Again, no response except from others saying they had the same problem. > Someone wrote to me with a patch, which worked (after re-compiling xorg). > I reported this, but got no response. > I wrote to half-a-dozen people mentioned in the source, > but none replied. > > Then, about a year later the patch was applied, > again without mention in the bugzilla. > > So I'm afraid my experience is that posting a bugzilla > is unlikely to be a rewarding experience. > > Also the way the bugzilla site is arranged is like something out of the ark. > Someone ought to ask themselves, > "Is this the best way of organising a bug-reporting site? > Will people find it simple to report bugs? > Will people find it simple to search through the site." > > As far as I am concerned, the answer is "No. No. No." > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
