Subject: Bug Compendium
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 08:13:00 PDT
From: Stethem Ted              5721 <TedS@ms70.nuwes.sea06.navy.mil>

To Jason K.

   I believe you are the person proposing a consolidated bug list.  Would 
you be willing to consider compiling an Imagine Bug Compendium in the 
fashion of the Imagine Compendium's Carmen Rizzolo and Steve Worley were 
putting together a couple of years ago?  Frankly, I don't use Imagine 
extensively enough to encounter many of the bugs reported here, and 
sometimes bugs that are reported as bugs are not, and some bugs get fixed, 
and some bugs appear to be different bugs because they are described 
differently by different people.  So, it would sure help if someone would 
consolidate the bug reports into one package.  Also, it is fun to have "wish 
lists" and bug lists, but unless you intend to somehow reverse engineer the 
Imagine program and fix the bugs yourself, none of this will happen without 
Impulse doing the work.  So, if there were a consolidated list, it could be 
sent to Impulse as a fax and maybe with a petition list of users, requesting 
(or demanding) bugs be fixed and features added.  Any company that gets a 
list of several hundred (or thousand) customers requesting their product to 
be fixed is going to pay attention.
   However, I do believe Mike H. does have a valid point and I see it here 
on this list too often.  The effectiveness of this program is dependent on 
the user.  There is too much whining going on here.  Look at the products 
Bradley Schenk is producing.  He doesn't seem to whine and whine about the 
supposedly poor rendering quality of Imagine, the cumbersome interfaces, the 
lack of ARexx support, the lack of ASL requestors, how much better Real3D 
is, on and on.  Neither does Alan Henry.  Look at that Bee example in the 
manual plus some of the other things he has done.  I think all these guys 
are monitoring the list but I don't blame them for not getting involved. 
 Besides they are probably too busy producing product.  In the hands of a 
Michelangelo, a hammer and chisel produces marvelous sculpture; in the hands 
of an ignorant amateur, a hammer and chisel produces gravel.


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