Re: 04: glib: g_list_free_1 should return ->next

[Guido Draheim <guidod-2003- gmx de>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> [..]
> Basically, the difference is that bug reports _force_ 
> us to act upon them (even it's a question of WONTFIX)
> while if we read a mailing list post, we may think it's
> a cool idea, but most likely won't remember it at all
> when it comes time to work on features for the next
> release.
>
> Also, bug reports have lots more features that we find
> useful:
>
>  - Assigning categories/milestones/priorities/KEYWORDS
>  - Sorting
>  - Querying
>  - Marking as resolved
>
> etc. It's how we track open work items, and it's
> easiest and most reliable if people file their own
> bug reports rather than hoping that we will do it for
> them.
>
> [...]
> Well, if you actually have questions or suggestions that you'd like
> people to talk about, you should send them to the mailing list.
>
> But if you want them acted upon, file them in bugzilla.
> I often will mail the mailing list, and then file a bug
> in bugzilla with a link to the mailing list post.
>
> E.g.:
>
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101959
> [...]

ack!!

> > there are 36 more items on my list *grin*
> >
> > I'll feed them one at a time, so that people are not
> > scared off and unwilling to discuss the things since
> > they have better things to do than sit over a code
> > review... giving it a few minutes a day is much more
> > appropriate ;-)
>
>  
> 36... wow. please do file them in bugzilla instead/as well
> as sending them to gtk-devel-list. It's just not manageable
> to keep track of huge numbers of items without the sort
> of database features that bugzilla provides.

I'll try to get them into shape one at a time - it's also
quite time-consuming for me - and some are dubious whether
they should be "acted" upon or whether it would just need
to be documented - especially there are a lot of API calls
which will happily segfault in some corner conditions or
mourne about null-arguments where it would have been okay
to keep silent - the list is quite diverse in that respect
and I am not that sure I can express the things right to
the point.

cheers, guido