Re: [Fwd: Bug #19187 [Csd->CRp]: ** CRITICAL **: myx_grt_value_as_int: assertion `value != NULL' failed]

Dave Howorth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.mycc
Organization MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I wrote
>> I'm not impressed with a bug tracking protocol

Mike Lischke wrote:
> I'm not sure what your problem is with that.

Mainly the next paragraph in my post (see below).

> And if he cannot reproduce it then it is quite likely the bug is
> already fixed (although not always, of course).

Not testing in the reported version would be careless. But Alfredo's 
report did state that he tested the version I reported (good work, 
IMHO). There's never any chance of it already being fixed in that version.

> Have you actually tried to reproduce the problem more than once? Can
> you see it 100% of the time?

Yes.

> tried another machine/another distro?

No. See my last comment.

>> This kind of artificial bug-squashing statistics fiddling doesn't
>> fall within the bounds of acceptable ethical behaviour IMHO.

This is my problem that you didn't understand.

> I understand your frustration. You want that beast fixed and we are
> here to fix it. But please understand also that this bug is one of
> many and we have a lot of work to do. So if a bug seems to be fixed
> then we rather spend our time to fix other bugs instead of doing two
> other rounds of communication just to confirm that the bug is either
> really fixed or is still present in an older release.

And the fact that it artifically reduces the number of open bugs, 
artificially reduces time-to-fix and artificially increases the 
proportion of idiot-user-reported-irreproducible-bugs doesn't worry you 
or your managers? It's giving a biased view of developer/qa performance 
and of users.

>> I definitely *won't* be trying 1.0.6beta or any other beta.
 > Please reconsider this.

The main problem I had with the program is its complete lack of 
documentation. Until that's fixed, I'm just not interested in the 
program because I can't use it even if it works. Also, in five minutes 
testing I came across two bugs, either one of which is severe enough to 
make the product unusable. That's alpha quality, not beta, IMHO.

So I'll wait until the product appears to be stable.

Sorry, Dave

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