Re: Bugs bugs, Finder bugs, yummy bugs
Re: Bugs bugs, Finder bugs, yummy bugs
- Subject: Re: Bugs bugs, Finder bugs, yummy bugs
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:39:23 +0100
On 23 Aug 2005, at 12:07, John C. Welch wrote:
It seems to me that if the bug's not important enough for you to
file, then
it's not important enough for them to fix.
Spend days bitching about something in great detail, then bitch
about the
five minutes filing the bug takes, and say it's not your job?
I agree. Most stuff isn't worth reporting or fixing and it *isn't* my
job either.
But nobody spends days bitching about a bug. They normally spend
about 30 seconds doing it and then 3 days more wasting time arguing
with you or some other professional Mac-pundit about whether you'd
personally insulted every member of the Finder scripting team or the
possible meanings of every other word in a simple sentence.
It may surprise you, but some people on this list don't earn their
money from pontificating about computer technology and Apple code.
Trying to work out why I couldn't read files from a DVD in Tiger took
me about 90 minutes of screwing around - including loading kexts and
then reading through logs of Authorization Services calls. That's not
the sort of thing that the majority of AppleScript *users* are going
to be prepared to do in a bid to isolate a problem. You may also be
duplicating the same research that somebody else has already done -
but Apple's bug tracking won't allow you to find out if that is the
case. Bitching about took 90 seconds.
I'd much rather be making pretty pictures than filing bug reports to
Apple. If we get problems here with software that has cost us a lot
of money and affects our ability to produce work - then we'll file
some very frequent and very detailed reports.
Most of the Apple apps just aren't worth bothering about - let those
who rely on them spend the time isolating and reporting the bugs.
--
Martin Orpen
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