Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > Have you reported them? Don't assume the devels know that there's a
> > > problem, and don't just report it here as most devels don't read the
> > > list.
> >
> > Well, I did it.  Now I feel like an idiot.  Briefly the description 
> > is "Evolution freezes.  Start it and watch it crash."  If I were a
> > developer, I'd go right on to something else.
>
> You said earlier that it crashed, which isn't what your BZ report says.
> Crashing and freezing are different things. In many ways debugging a
> crash is much easier since you can get a core dump. Debugging a freeze
> means trying to narrow down the exact conditions that make it occur.

Quite right.  I realized when going over the thread that I should have
described the problem as a freeze and not a crash.  I suspect my
description would have made this clear, since the window remained in
existence (otherwise how could I have closed it), as it would not have
in a crash, but describing the problem as a freeze makes the report much
clearer.

> Also, when mentioning a BZ report here on the list it's conventional to
> give the bug number (or better, the URL of the BZ page) in case someone
> wants to add anything.

Also quite right.  It's bug 528393.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528393

jon