Re: [Gaim-devel] Open chat window, close, open again, results in segfault, reproducable

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:50:37AM -0500, William Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:40:09 -0500
> Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > In  general,  CVS  is  going  to  be  crashy from time to time.  This is
> > addressed in the FAQ.  We do not support the usage of CVS for this  very
> > reason;  for  the  most  part,  it  is  expected that crashes in CVS are
> > reported not as "I have this crash", but "here is a patch to fix a crash
> > I  had".   This  is not because we are mean or bad people (I'm mean, but
> > that doesn't stand for all developers), but because it is expected  that
> > CVS  will  break  and  be fixed in the normal course of development, and
> > reporting individual obvious breakages does nothing but slow us down.
> > 
> > Ethan
> 
> Since it would have been mentioned anyways and noticed sometime in the future might as well bring it up now. I don't see how this slowed anyone down. If problems aren't identified where is development? Seems pretty critical to me that having the conversation window open would help the development process. I don't know the code well enough, but the developers do, and I wouldn't be able to send a "here is a patch to fix a crash that people have." All I can do is help and say "Gaim CVS has had this problem for a week and I don't know if anyone has noticed it," and someone in the future will notice it. I understand your point on this and have noted it.
> 
> Sincerely,
> William

You are correct in that it has not been discussed here or in the
trackers.  You are incorrect in stating that it was unnoticed.  It
was known and discussed in #gaim on irc.freenode.net quite
extensively even before your first post.

luke