Reality check

Joseph Garvin k04jg02 at kzoo.edu
Thu Oct 13 16:01:42 CDT 2005


If you want the bug fixed urgently, pay someone to do so.

John Smith wrote:

> There was a discussion here about 2 months ago, where I asked for a 
> way to embed WINE config strings into Win32 executable (for example, 
> as string resources). I was told that it is better to fix the problem 
> rather than to create workarounds, and that fixing bugs is trivial and 
> takes at most 2-3 days as soon as it is reproducible.
>
> I didn't argue much then but made a little experiment to prove my 
> point. The point is the following:
> THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN GETTING BUG FIXED IS TO GET SOMEBODY WORK 
> ON IT.
> The same applies both to commercial environments and to open source 
> ones equally. Experiment
> illustrates it very well:
>
> I've found an application that experiences the problem with sympthoms 
> which are very similar to ours,
> can be installed in 5 minutes and the problem can be reproduced in 3 
> clicks. And I've opened a bug in
> WINE's bugzilla: #3270 (another one #3269 was opened for another 
> incompatibility). Result is the following: IN 6 WEEKS NOBODY EVEN TOOK 
> A LOOK AT BOTH THOSE BUGS.
>
> Welcome to the real world
>
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