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Re: Anyone willing to maintain a cygwin bugs database
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:04:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: Anyone willing to maintain a cygwin bugs database
- References: <20030719180030.GA21166@redhat.com> <3F19CDC1.4030502@netscape.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:01:21PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>
>>I have always resisted the idea of a cygwin bug database because the
>>cygwin user base is basically so clueless. The theory is that if we
>>opened up a bug database it would be filled with people reporting that
>>setup.exe isn't resizeable or saying "I need help cygwin, gcc command
>>not found says".
>
>That's what WONTFIX or WORKSFORME is for ;-).
Changing 187 entries to WONTFIX and then answering the plaintive wails
in the issue is going to be time consuming, though.
I don't think it is possible to overestimate how much work this will be
and how much garbage we're going to see entered.
cgf