On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:13, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Mark has a valid concern: Why aren't bugs being fixed?
Maybe the people who work a lot on GCC just don't hear enough about those bug reports. I for one will admit to not looking at bugzilla often enough. I like the Wiki regressions page a lot, because it is a nice overview, categorized and everything, of bugs in GCC that we may want to fix asap. You could actually see this happening the last time Mark sent a GCC 4.0.1 status report: he mentioned three bugs and all three of them are fixed now, about one week later. One of them was literally a five minute job, but nobody pointed out this bug to the people who are familiar with the code that the bug was in. Or maybe the bugs are just not important enough to the people working on GCC. When some bug is a real problem, it usually gets fixed pretty quickly AFAICT. > One answer is: > The GCC community is often less than welcoming, friendly, and helpful. The GCC community is, as far as I can tell, quite welcoming and most of the time very friendly and helpful to people who want to hack GCC and get stuck somewhere after thinking up a good plan for fixing bugs, reading the code and manuals before asking, and trying to do as much as possible themselves. People get less friendly and helpful when someone only asks silly questions and lots of hand-holding is needed. That is perfectly reasonable, most GCC hackers are trying to finish actual work that they care about, and you can't force them to care about your itches if they really just don't care. Persisting upsets people, and that is perfectly normal I think. Gr. Steven
