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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
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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.
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