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- From: marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo)
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.232111.2498@deadzone.princeton.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:21:11 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.151614.19135@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Sep2.054029.7176@panix.com> <183fioINNg7t@parlo.hal.COM> <1992Sep3.204122.464@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: DeadZone * A/UX 3.0 SVR2 * 609-275-1833
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- In <1992Sep3.204122.464@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrsbg@calvin.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve B. Green) writes:
-
- >In article <183fioINNg7t@parlo.hal.COM> paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
- >>In article <1992Sep2.054029.7176@panix.com> alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- >>writes:
- >>>dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
- >>> [Complains that bugs reported via comp.unix.aux and
- >>> reports.aux@applelink.apple.com go unacknowledged]
- >>>[deleted]
- >>[stuff about purchasing phone support]
-
- >Garbage! Dont tell me that I have to purchase phone support so the
- >bugs I report can get fixed.
-
- >The problem is that Apple does not put enough weight on responding to
- >reported bugs. Antonio has been known to respond to some reports but
- >the stated policy was(/is?) NOT to respond to reports.
-
- >To be fair, I am sure that not all reports that I have submitted have
- >actually been bugs. However, I can say for sure that I know of bug(s)
- >that I have submitted during 2.0b12 (or so) that still exist in 3.0.
- >So why is that.. Broken by design? Apple does not care? The information
- >never got to the correct person? What?
-
- Well, I reported several bug reports during the betas as well,
- and was always sent back an ack with a reference number so I
- could check on the status of the bug.
-
- Now granted some bugs go by without much attention (like the
- serial ports mess - when's it going to be fixed?) but the
- majority of them have been fixed.
-
- For the most part Apple (specifically the A/UX team) spend a lot
- of time trying to get bugs taken care of, unfortunately when
- your boss says work on the next version that's what you do.
-
- Maybe we should get in touch with the A/UX leaders and giv'em
- hell.
-
- Marcelo -
-
-
- >I guess I will never know but because of that, I will submit no more bug
- >reports to Apple.
-
- >For comparison, when I submit a bug report to Convex, I get a notice
- >of receipt within 24 hours and a number to track the problem with.
- >When the report is delt with, I get another notice of the resolution.
- >... and we dont even have to pay for that service. :)
- >
- >--
- >Steve Green <xrsbg@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov>
-
- >NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Centers For Computational Sciences, Code 931
- --
- Marcelo Gallardo marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu
- Test and Evaluation Specialist ...!princeton!deadzone!marcelo
- Princeton University marcelo@Princeton.EDU
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