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Unnoticed bug report

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Werner Pamler
Werner Pamler wrote 6 lines
Hello Two months ago I submitted the bug report https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/40748 about an issue in TDBF. Although I was able to add a patch along with test programs this report has remained unnoticed until now. A bit de-motivating, I am afraid...

We're not a company with a policy on a guaranteed response time. We all have day-time jobs.

Gitlab notifies me of new bugreports. If I don't somehow interact with them, then I will not be notified of follow-up messages, so your follow-up messages (including patches) are not seen by me (or, so I suspect, anyone else in the team).

As a consequence, things may go unnoticed, this is not a reflection on the seriousness of an issue or quality of the patch.

Feel free to contact us here or by other means if you feel that a bugreport is ignored.

Michael.

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Bart
to Michael Van Canneyt
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As a consequence, things may go unnoticed, this is not a reflection on the seriousness of an issue or quality of the patch. Feel free to contact us here or by other means if you feel that a bugreport is ignored.

I know, which is exactly why I suggest Werner to contact the devels on this ML. So, what I believe Werner wants to ask is that he would like someone to review his patch in said issue.

Bart

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Bart
Bart wrote 13 lines
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote: > As a consequence, things may go unnoticed, this is not a reflection > on the seriousness of an issue or quality of the patch. > > Feel free to contact us here or by other means if you feel that a bugreport > is ignored. I know, which is exactly why I suggest Werner to contact the devels on this ML. So, what I believe Werner wants to ask is that he would like someone to review his patch in said issue.

It would be not very helpful on my part to answer here and do nothing else :)

If you look at the issue, you will see I already merged it before replying to his mail here.

Michael.

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Werner Pamler
to Michael Van Canneyt: We're not a company with a policy on a guaranteed response time. We all have day-time…

Please don't misunderstand  my word "de-motivating" as criticism, I should not have used it, sorry.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote 11 lines
We're not a company with a policy on a guaranteed response time. We all have day-time jobs. Gitlab notifies me of new bugreports. If I don't somehow interact with them, then I will not be notified of follow-up messages, so your follow-up messages (including patches) are not seen by me (or, so I suspect, anyone else in the team). As a consequence, things may go unnoticed, this is not a reflection on the seriousness of an issue or quality of the patch.

I having the same experience as Laz-dev: I see a report which looks interesting, but cannot address it at the moment. Not sure whether I really can fix the issue I do not assign it to myself at this moment. And later, when I could have a closer look, that report has scrolled down the list and is no longer seen readily...

Feel free to contact us here or by other means if you feel that a bugreport is ignored.

Thank you

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Martin Frb
to Werner Pamler
Werner Pamler wrote 5 lines
I having the same experience as Laz-dev: I see a report which looks interesting, but cannot address it at the moment. Not sure whether I really can fix the issue I do not assign it to myself at this moment. And later, when I could have a closer look, that report has scrolled down the list and is no longer seen readily...

There are 2 options (that I am aware of).

1) Make a todo for that issue. Unfortunately the Gitlab Todo list floods itself with other stuff, so you need to constantly clean it.

2) Add a "reaction" (i.e. a thumbs up, or any other you can find in the list.
The issue search allows to search for "My reaction". So reactions can be your "watchlist". (you need to know which reaction you used)

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