[gentoo-dev] Bugs Bugs Bugs & Unstablity

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

All I ever hear or read about is people complaining about bugs or 
stability issues or an ebuild problem. Granted I'm not complaining about 
this, this is good... we need to know this. But there is one thing 
missing... I go to http://bugs.gentoo.org and sort through the bugs and 
there are hardly any bug reports for the problems people say.

Here's a couple things I'd like to see our users do as far as bugs
1) Fill out bug reports @ http://bugs.gentoo.org
2) Provide us with all the necessary details... for example... if you 
just tell me that libfoo's latest ebuild doesn't compile for you. That 
is definetly not enough detail. Provide the FULL version including our 
ebuild revision, such as libfoo-1.0.1-r1.ebuild is what we'd like to see.
3) You NEED to tell us which version compiler you are using.
4) You need to tell us your USE flags and your CFLAGS
5) Provide us with a copy and paste of the exact error message.
6) Any other data you feel might be revelant.

If you do all that more bugs will be fixed and they will hopefully be 
fixed faster.

And if the person who sent me the patch against the latest version of 
pcmcia-cs over IRC in a /query while I was gone is here.... please fill 
out a bug report and lemme know what it fixes and include it. My battery 
on the laptop ran out while I was gone.

In conclusion, you need to submit your bugs and concerns in a reliable 
fashion so that they can be properly addressed... the only way to do 
that is to fill out a bug report.

-- 
Doug Goldstein
Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1)
Gentoo Linux                                http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/