Hi,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:27:16PM -0400, Ben Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:24 -0400, Scott Brozell wrote:
> >
> > What link leads to bugzilla ? I didnt see it here:
> > http://ambermd.org/pmwiki/index.php/Main/Bugs
>
> See here: http://ambermd.org/pmwiki/index.php/Main/HomePage
>
> Especially, look under the "Amber 11 test summaries" heading.
Ahh, i guess we have enough hurdles to keep the masses from reporting
via bugzilla.
> > Im not a fan of opening bugzilla up to the ignorant masses (users).
> > > >
> > > > 1. Are we actually using Bugzilla at present, and/or is there a
> > > > consensus one way or the other about whether we should be doing so (the
> > > > Wiki page notwithstanding)?
> > >
> > > Technically we are, although it is not being used as zealously as it should
> > > be.
> >
> > Yes we are. But we are also still following the unwritten scientific
> > programming approach of 'u found it, u fix.'
> > So bugzilla is not a place where we track all of our mistakes for
> > pedagogical/administrative/financial purposes.
> > Of course there is a time limit; so if u found it and tried hard enough
> > to fix it but couldnt then report it.
>
> I understand, Scott. My particular difficulty is that I'm not well
> versed in C programming (though I'm learning - slowly), and not terribly
> familiar with the whole Amber code base yet. I can help to identify the
> problem, and even run the code through a debugger to find out what
> function is causing, for example, a segfault. But a problem that might
That is already a significant try; and a report with those details
may greatly help bug fixing.
> at the moment take me five days to fix could probably be fixed by
> someone like you or Dave in half a day, if not indeed half an hour, and
> with more confidence in the resulting code. I'm not trying to make extra
> work for people; on the contrary, I'm trying to find the way I can best
> help fix problems - that is, with the least amount of total effort. And
> if I can't fix something myself, I would rather report it to someone who
> can than sweep it under the carpet.
>
> Some problems I probably can fix myself, even in C. But when I come
> across things like 64-bit memory messes, you can perhaps see why I
> wouldn't want to try my hand at fixing those myself just yet.
No problem, and its better to have a good bug fix than to make
more problems. But Dave and I and probably others keep on eye
on the cvs logs. In short, it seems like you are on the right course.
> > Heres my blurb on bug reports:
> > We gratefully accept detailed bug reports that contain short input
> > files for reproducible bugs. In fact those are our favorite ones :)
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
>
> I sent my original email with a view to the test suite in particular. In
> general, I agree absolutely.
original email, huh; i may have missed something here.
Scott
_______________________________________________
AMBER-Developers mailing list
AMBER-Developers.ambermd.org
http://lists.ambermd.org/mailman/listinfo/amber-developers
Received on Mon Oct 12 2009 - 21:30:02 PDT
