On Saturday, 12 of April 2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote:Well, the fact is, reporting bugs is always welcome. However, it may not be immediately obvious what causes the bug to appear as well as the bug need not be readily reproducible on any other system than yours, at least at the moment. In which case whether or not the bug will be fixed depends on the reporter. Namely, if the reporter wants and has the time to provide developers with additional information, the bug has a good chance to be fixed. Otherwise, it'll probably stay there until there's a more persistent reporter or it's fixed as a result of a related change. So, if people ask you to do a bisection, they probably mean "we don't see what the problem is and can't reproduce it, so please get us more information, otherwise we won't know how to fix it". In that case, you could provide them with a reproducible test case just as well. That said, there may be some developers who just don't want to spend time on analysing code and put the burden of finding the offending change on the reporter, but I don't think it's common practice. Thanks, Rafael --
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