Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!caip!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: waning enthusiasism for 1.2 Message-ID: <373@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 22:44:45 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.373 Posted: Mon Jun 9 22:44:45 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jun-86 02:39:23 EDT References: <468@elmgate.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 56 Keywords: 1.2 ROM Kickstart beta kernal bugs In article <468@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) writes: > >The workbench in 1.1 WAS fairly reliable. At least in my experiance. >Ah-hem, it ain't so in 1.2b2. Now I don't know if CBM-Amiga wants >developers airing dirty laundry out in public so I'll keep this >non-specific for the moment. Please go ahead and post any bugs you find - It's better to find them once and report them, than for n people to be complaining about bugs and nobody knows if they are new ones or old favorites. >What happen? My guess is, like in my own programs, too many fixes were >installed all at once. In my own code, after 3 or patches to the same >routine the code becomes so different from what I originally had intended >that I can't follow it or fix it any further. Time to scrap that routine >and rewrite it. C-A better do the same (I suspect). Pretty close - too many goodies and fixes were thrown into the beta release at the last moment. The previous alpha release was probably better as far as day to day reliability. >Oh yes, the bug reports will go out Wednesday. I've gotta run off copies >(many) and type 'em up. Later..... >-- >Jeff Gortatowsky {allegra,seismo}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg Could I suggest that bug reports posted to the net try to approach the formalism used for posting bugs to net.bugs.4bsd? This is not an attempt at being officious, but rather a very pragmatic suggestion. The more clearly you can describe a bug and how to invoke it, the more likely that someone at Amiga or Commodore can repeat the problem and fix it. Here is an outline based on the 4.2BSD bugformat... Subject: Short summary of the problem Index: 1.2b2 Description: Detailed description of the problem, suggestion, or complaint. Repeat-By: Procedure to repeat the problem. Fix: Description of how to fix and/or work around the problem. -- P.S. Flames to /dev/null on this - if you've ever worked in technical support or software maintenance you can understand the problem... -- George Robbins - now working with, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)