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From: frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: bugs
Message-ID: <3963@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 19:37:43 GMT
References: <4648@bsu-cs.UUCP> <36085@clyde.ATT.COM> <4670@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California
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In article <4670@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>If I find some shortcomings (ahem) in a submission, which of the
>following two alternatives is better?
>
>-- posting it and simply documenting bugs that I find
>
>-- or not posting it and sending feedback to the author and waiting for
>him to either fix it or ask me to go ahead and post anyway

My vote is for:
	a) requesting information from the author on small packages.
	   (If I were the author, I would want to know that something
	   was wrong with my small(>20K) utility.)
	b) sending out bug reports on (>20K) medium to large packages.

Frotz