Re: HEAD broken for OSX- nsfsn.o fails to compile

[Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> Does this ring any bells?
> 
> Well, it rings these bells:
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5814
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg01440.html
> 
> and the one from INSTALL.BZR:
> 
>    Because the Bazaar version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will
>    sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the
>    bug and development mailing list archives) before reporting such
>    problems. In most cases, the problem is known about and is just
>    waiting for someone to fix it.

You reply to the message wherein he points out that the breakage happened 3 days ago with a quote suggesting he wait a day or so.  He checked the mailing list and saw that no one had mentioned it in well more than ``a day or so'', and sent mail to the development list with the specific breakage and changeset that caused it.  

Complete Failure.

I realize that it is very important to you that the bug tracker be used appropriately, but this is not the first time I've seen you attempt to hector people out of reporting development issues and asking development questions on the development list -- not the bug tracker.  While I'm sure that you're doing good work, and I do appreciate those good works, I do not consider this type of nanny-ism good, or desirable, and it comes across to me as the opposite of helpful.

Thanks,
*Chad