Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:20890 alt.config:1748 Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.x-windows.bugs,alt.config Subject: Re: xbugs needs wider distribution Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 90 07:56:25 GMT References: <4132@labtam.oz> <9004050051.AA11859@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 39 In-reply-to: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU's message of 5 Apr 90 00:51:11 GMT In article <9004050051.AA11859@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes: From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Date: 5 Apr 90 00:51:11 GMT Access to bug reports and their status is one of the benefits of membership in the X Consortium. Many bugs get fixed without ever being published as public patches; access to these fixes is also one of the benefits of membership. We have no plans to make bug reports generally available. alt.x-windows.bugs is an unmoderated group for the reporting of bugs in X. Posters should use the standard bug reporting form used to report bugs to xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu, and arrange for cc'ing a copy of the bug report to this group. (A mail alias will be set up at some point to make this easier.) It appears to be the policy of the X Consortium that bug reports are available only to Consortium members, as a benefit of membership. By posting your bug reports to alt.x-windows.bugs, you avoid this information hoarding and enable the entire community to share this valuable information. The group is unmoderated because it's easy to set up that way. It may prove more useful at some point to moderate the group. This group is not officially santioned by the X Consortium; there's no guarantee that any of them will read it. Some articles in alt.x-windows.bugs will be cc'ed in after the fact from comp.windows.x with permission from the original poster. alt.x-windows.bugs is the first of several newsgroups in the alt hierarchy dealing with X11. Your input in further groups is welcomed, that discussion will happen in alt.config. I hope that some of the alt.x-windows groups will eventually appear as comp.windows.x subgroups, once the names are decided on and some useful traffic appears. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept.