Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Two bug reports Keywords: Keep USENet community informed of bug status Message-ID: <26729@usc.edu> Date: 21 Aug 90 16:49:53 GMT References: <13867@cbmvax.commodore.com> <13910@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug21.123304.5731@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@usc.edu Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu In article <1990Aug21.123304.5731@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >I think _everybody_ would like to see a monthly posting >of new bug-number, bug-reported-by, bug-assigned-to, >bug-priority, bug-one-line-descriptions from CBM show up >in comp.sys.amiga.tech, and the load as a percent of the >newsgroup volume would be infinitessimal. I don't think so. comp.sys.amiga.tech is not the forum for such reporting. Commercial developers have more than one direct channel (beta updates and BIX), and splattering bug reports on a "public" medium like Usenet is like washing your dirty laundry in public. No wonder NO computer company does that. >If someone at CATS has the time, that would be a good PR and ^^^^^^^^ >public service kind of a thing to do on USENet, and would >save developers and users mountains of time figuring out that >the problem is in the OS, and not in our stars. Good PR? You must be joking :-) I guess you have no idea of what "good PR" is. "Real developers" have all the ways to find out what they need and they don't need any "mountain of time". I can talk by personal experience: Commodore has had the BEST developer's support of ALL companies I've been developing for (and that includes "other" three-letter companies :-) -- Marco -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Xerox sues somebody for copying?" -- David Letterman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=