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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 15 Feb 1997 00:47:08 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5e312c$fc8@news.bayarea.net> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <DERAADT.97Feb10191845@zeus.theos.com> <5dtc0g$hd0@cynic.portal.ca> <1997Feb14.090136@screwem.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5365 In article <1997Feb14.090136@screwem.citi.umich.edu>, peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu> wrote: >so where does that leave you? at citi, we used netbsd for quite some >time, but got sick and tired of patching the bug fixes we submitted to >the netbsd core into release after release. that sucks. I have to take issue with this... I was aware that Jim Rees sent mail about bugs from time to time. However, I just checked the bugs database... not a _single_ bug report was ever filed by _anyone_ from CITI. How can you attack NetBSD for not fixing your bugs when you never submitted bug reports? Also, I just checked the core archives (being a member of core, I can do that...)... No reports of bugs were ever sent to "core@netbsd.org" by CITI folks, either. What likely happened, is that a message was posted to port-i386 about a bug in some non-i386-specific part of the system, and it fell through the cracks. That's not our fault. That would be analagous to posting about a linker bug to some linux network driver mailing list. Given that we have a bug-tracking system in place, it's totally unreasonable to expect developers to scour mailing list archives looking for possible bug reports. I suggest that if you're going to complain about The Man's System, you ought to try actually using it first. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>