Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2943 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 92307 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2003 14:02:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.lerdorf.com) (66.93.78.119) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Jun 2003 14:02:46 -0000 Received: from [10.0.1.10] ([10.0.1.10]) by www.lerdorf.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Debian-4) with ESMTP id h5SE2jEa011948; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:02:45 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:02:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Sascha Schumann cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org (fwd) From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Sascha Schumann wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > > > > And the point was..? AFAICT, our system works fine. > > Seemed like the linux dudes are way behind. :) > > Count the developers who regularly access the bug db. > Contrast that number to the overall number of C developers. > Notice how the bug db effectively is ignored by the vast > majority of developers. Count the number of developers who regularly write documentation for their code. Contrast that with the overall number of C developers. Notice how documentation is effectively ignored by the vast majority of developers. I don't think you can make neither debugging luser problems nor writing documentation attractive to the average developer through any sort of superficial interface or process change. -Rasmus