Re: Bug lists?
Re: Bug lists?
- Subject: Re: Bug lists?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:23:42 -0400
On 10/17/2002 18:53, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Known issues lists with scripting additions are not minor things when you're
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> banging your head against one.
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You're absolutely right, of course.
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But the situation today is vastly better than it was even two or three years
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ago. About five years ago I started collecting and publishing info about
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AppleScript bugs. I still do it for each new version of AS, but my job is
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easier now because Apple's bug reports are better (and they exist; that was
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progress in and of itself).
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Bill...quite frankly, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't know about half the
bugs that exist in AppleScript. If there was an AppleScript hall of fame
program, you would have to be one of the first round inductees.
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One of the problems, from Apple's perspective, is that bugs are inevitably
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found after the bugs-fixed-and-not-fixed list is released. Apple doesn't
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seem to have a formal mechanism in place to update the list that comes out
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when the new version is released. I collect what info I can after each AS
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release and add it to my reports periodically. But that's very hit-or-miss,
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because I don't have time to read every single email message on the lists,
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and my own AppleScript work only turns up the occasional bug that hasn't
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been reported elsewhere.
B-l-o-g...what's that spell? Live updates of bug lists ;-) Seriously, a blog
would be a very useful mechanism, at *least* for the dev program members.
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What I'm saying is, count your blessings, and hope for even more as time
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goes by.
It's gotten better and worse...seed readmes used to have really good detail.
Now they are just scoldings. I'm paying not insignificant, (for me), money
to be a select developer, but there are too many times I'm questioning why.
Bug reports are *critical* here, and while you do a truly admirable job,
(and please don't take this the wrong way), your bug lists should be utterly
redundant.
john
--
"Who Dares, Wins."
British Special Air Service (SAS)
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