Filing bug reports: What's the point?

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 22:03 -0700, Scott wrote:
>> 
>> I don't expect resolution (at this point), just acknowledgment....
> 
> I guess the developers have better things to do than posting an "I've
> seen it" message to every new bug report. I think you should consider it
> an acknowledgement that the bug is there, visibly, on the website, and
> will not be lost.

Well, if there's any activity at all, he'd get an email, so it de facto
means that nothing's happened (though not that nobody's looked).

> And if you file more bugs you will also see cases were bugs are dealt
> with extremely swiftly if they warrant the urgency, so please continue
> to file your reports :)

Yep.  Sometimes even the negative ones (bugs closed for whatever reason that
doesn't involve a fix) get dealt with quickly.
-- 
derek