is it worth reporting bugs in 2.6.1?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Oct 3 08:53:07 EDT 2008


Hi Bernard,

The first part of this bug was reported already as <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6348 
 > some time ago.

Since the close box issue exists in 2.6.1 but --if I understand you  
correctly-- seems to be resolved in 3.0, it makes no sense to report it.

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On 3 okt 2008, at 14:33, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> The first thing I did after installing 2.6.1 on Linux was to run  
> Bjoernke's
> chat rev stack (http://bjoernke.com/runrev/chatrev.php), since it  
> presented
> so many problems in Rev 3.0 Linux.  After creating a legacy stack  
> using 3.0,
> in 2.6.1 I was at least able to submit more than a few lines to my  
> chat
> server, without the IDE locking up.  Even though 2.6.1 looks worse  
> than 3.0,
> I was feeling relieved.  At least I have a version of Rev that looks  
> like I
> might be able to work with it.
>
> Then I noticed, that the chat rev stack had no 'close' decoration.  I
> checked back in 3.0 and it has a 'close' decoration there.  So I  
> opened up
> my Ubuntu VM and installed 2.6.1 there.  There too in 3.0 it has a  
> close
> decoration, but not in 2.6.1.
>
> So the same legacy stack opened in 2.6.1 on Ubuntu and Fedora has no  
> 'close'
> decoration, but on 3.0 it does have a 'close' decoration (and  
> 'close' is one
> of the items of the decorations of the stack).  Oh, and whilst I had  
> that
> legacy stack open on 3.0 on ubuntu, the IDE crashed.  This was a
> freshly-restarted VM, and within 2 minutes of being opened Rev 3.0  
> crashed.
> I had done nothing but open chatrev.
>
> Is it possible there is something in that stack that could be causing
> problems?  I have a lot of respect for the skills of Bjoernke and  
> the other
> chat rev users, so I find it hard to believe that they would not  
> have found
> any obvious bugs in the stack by now, and reported them or worked  
> round
> them.
>
> Chatrev is not the only thing I've had problems with in 3.0, but  
> since I am
> also seeing such bizarre behaviour in 2.6.1, I'm starting to think I  
> am
> jinxed.
>
> I'm tired of weeks of bug tracking, and just want to get back to  
> doing some
> developmen, using Linux on my new laptop.  Is there any point in  
> adding this
> information to QCC?
>
> Bernard.





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