On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> I can't help thinking that as a community we don't do ourselves any
> favours at all by being so damn pedantic about where bugs should be
> reported. What must new users think when they get chastised for
> reporting a *PostgreSQL* Installer bug, from an insraller they
> probably got via www.postgresql.org on that same website?
>
> If this is a real problem for people, perhaps someone should update
> the web form to ask for the sub-project and direct the bug reports
> accordingly rather than have us continue to bleat at users.
> Volunteers?
>
> Back on topic - there are of course a number of people working on the
> installers who watch this list, and as one of them I can confirm that
> this issue was noted and resolved just this week.
It would certainly be nice if we could just have all bugs reported
here and sort it out ourselves, but in practice that doesn't seem to
work. When installer or pgadmin bugs are reported here, they
typically don't get a response. Eventually I often try to write back
myself, but if it pertains to something other than core PostgreSQL
there's little that I can do beyond suggesting that they might want to
try another forum, so that's what I do. If that's not helpful, I
could just ignore them altogether, but that doesn't seem better.
Or to put it another way, if someone had written back any time in the
13 days between when this email was posted and today and said "thanks
for the report - will look into it", I wouldn't have replied.
...Robert
