Anyone willing to maintain a cygwin bugs database

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Jul 19 23:04:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:01:21PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>
>>I have always resisted the idea of a cygwin bug database because the
>>cygwin user base is basically so clueless.  The theory is that if we
>>opened up a bug database it would be filled with people reporting that
>>setup.exe isn't resizeable or saying "I need help cygwin, gcc command
>>not found says".
>
>That's what WONTFIX or WORKSFORME is for ;-).

Changing 187 entries to WONTFIX and then answering the plaintive wails
in the issue is going to be time consuming, though.

I don't think it is possible to overestimate how much work this will be
and how much garbage we're going to see entered.

cgf



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