Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs
Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs
- Subject: Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:23:38 -0800
Hi Ray,
On 19 feb 2012, at 14:04, Ray Kiddy wrote:
> This has been a problem for a while. I have had conversations over 10 years ago with Radar people (Radar is bugreport.a.c from inside Apple) and they knew it was lame then. As far as I am concerned, filing a bug is just throwing a dirty sock over the wall. I will spend a few minutes on it, but no more. Maybe it is a new bug, but there are _so many_ bugs hanging out there, millions of them really, that it is pretty sure to be a duplicate.
Our millions of older bugs are not as important to us as our more recent bugs. The world of software is changing rapidly, and recent bugs are a much better representation of the kinds of issues that matters the most to our users today. The active set of issues that we focus on is very much influenced by the feedback that we've received - in terms of bug reports - over the last several months.
(That's not to say that we throw out old bugs - We keep all of them around basically forever, and with every new release some of them gets resolved one way or the other).
You may not find it worth your while to file bug reports, that I cannot influence, but a note to everyone else listening in: If you care about an issue with Xcode, your chances of seeing that issue being resolved in a future release of Xcode is greatly increased if you file an informative and constructive bug report. That certainly also holds true for duplicates, as we keep close tabs on the number of duplicates when doing our prioritization.
Joar
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