Re: Motivation for reporting PHP bugs

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> I recently reported a bug about problem with OCI8 driver
> and here is a little exchange that I had with a developer
> with nickname "tony2001". Obviously, persuading people to
> check the report is rather hard. Next time I encounter a bug,
> I will not report it. The bug number is:36119
<snip>

Here is my 2 paise... IMHO, people with C/C++ are bit harsh and also
if we take PHP, the saint culture is here in c.l.php only. So, it's
always better to have little patience when dealing with such people.

For me, I have reported couple of bugs and many of them got fixed
extremely fast and though few of them are bogus, they fixed the manual
with the reasons. I also, think, it is better to be very very precise
and brief when reporting bugs; probably when the developers ask for
more info you may provide more info. If you're good in C, it's also
better to look at the source and give little technical info to the
developers so that they can feel at ease.

> >Tony, I have 17 years of experience as an Oracle DBA
> And you think that causes the problem?
> Or why do you mention this?
<snip>

This could be the reason for your frustration? I side with Tony in
this regard 'coz his reasons look quite rational. IMHO, It's better to
win the discussion being rational than by quoting the experience;
nobody wants our number of experience, all they want is our reasons.

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