As a humble follower of the ReactOS project since 2007, I have seen many arguments on the ROSDEV mailing list and IRC, as well as the official forums. Please, remember that these information channels are all public, and flaming, trolling, or whatever you call it is completely exposed to the public.

If I was to look at jojning the ROS project as a developer, and i saw these kinds of arguments on the mailing list, I would be horrified, and probably just give up and move on to another project. Please, try and keep it professional.

As to the bugreport, as a simple non-developer, i can't see anything particularly wrong with it... It clearly shows what is wrong, supplies sourcecode, which could be used to diagnose the problem, and it shows clear methods of reproduction. It also describes a clear bug in the handling of windows, which could manifest itself in the behaviour of other apps. Sure, it's not the best bug report, but it's definately better than nothing.

Yours Sincerely

Joshua Rice

On 6 May 2011, at 09:43, Olaf Siejka wrote:

Its not the point of testing every random app there is. Such tests are useless, if they do not provide any precise error or in any other way show precisely any bug/deficiency in ROS. What are those for? What is the point of passing report same as in my afforementioned example (AKA app doesnt work, nothing in debug log). 

You ask what is wrong with such reports?

1. No precise error;
2. No info regarding the app in gathered debug log;
3. App is not of priority list (which includes major apps, as such would not be affected by points 1 and 2);

To have such report fixed, one would first research the bug, something what you ommited, feeling content with simply stating that app doesnt work...
I would understand if someone from outside of our project had reported such bugs, but for the fuck sake, you admitt you are within the project for so long. You should know well already, how bugs should be reported! Its not the first time i point out the quality of bugs reported by you, and my previous attempts to reason with you have failed. Please treat this as official warning from me then.

As for my arguments being a personal attack? Please... You seem to think too well of yourself if you think this is personal.
I am simply tired of cleaning up bugzilla, to endure such garbage reports as you pasted. 


2011/5/6 victor martinez <vicmarcal@hotmail.com>
 Hi Caemyr!


 
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