[4307] in Athena Bugs
Re: writing programs that use X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sun Feb 25 23:11:16 1990
From: Henry Mensch <henry@MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 25 Feb 90 22:33:45 -0500.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 90 23:10:50 EST
>Barry has already given me constructive information on how to deal with
>this. If you were unable to reply with constructive information, then
>please don't clutter my mailbox with flames. I apologize that I do not
>understand when you are amused by things and when you are not.
a) it is not safe to presume that jik will always be the one who
answers your bug report (in fact, any staff who are working on the qa
function may answer bug reports ... jik is doing it now for a variety
of reasons, but that doesn't mean he'll do it forever),
b) it is safe to presume that information sent to bugs is *business*
and that keeping reports topical and to the point will be appreciated
(particularly as the volume of information received via
bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU is non-trivial) more often than humor which might
depend on context (which anyone who has used this medium knows doesn't
carry so well ...)
c) if you are unable to remember what we need in a bug report, then
you should use "sendbug" ...
this is all constructive information. i trust you will do the right
thing with it.
-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Systems and Operations
