Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!cvl!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: list of bug fixes Summary: My apologies Message-ID: <8103@elsie.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 88 13:27:23 GMT References:<19880628214032.0.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 20 In article <19880628214032.0.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>, RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) writes: > The MIT staff of the X Consortium provides bug reports and > fixes (more than the public sees) in a timely manner to Consortium > members. Except for "critical" fixes, the public must wait until the > next release. Well I feel just awful. . .only two weeks of being an X user and already I've blown it. Here I've been sending off bug reports willy-nilly to xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu, only to learn now that the correct behavior is to "wait until the next release" before reporting noncritical bugs. I'll try to do this from now on. (And, of course, my first report following the release of Release 3 will be to suggest that an admonition to "wait until the next release" before reporting bugs be included in the System Release Notes.) In any event. . .I'm thinking of setting up a mailing list for folks interested in timely sharing of X bug reports. I'd like to honor the Consortium's policy, so I envision that this list would be limited to people who are not associated with the Consortium and who would refrain from forwarding items to the Consortium. If you'd be interested in being part of such a list, let me know. -- ado@ncifcrf.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex.