Re: What's the deal with this "programming error"?

[James Bailey]

On 09.06.2010, at 17:28, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But in this case, it is probably because hardly anyone is really  
> > using the
> > Ambitus_engraver. In my case, I have no particular knowledge, so I  
> > can't help
> > you in any way and thus cannot answer.
>
> That's no excuse for the Bug Squad, though -- somebody should have
> tried compiling his example, seen the same "programming error", and
> added it to the tracker.  Absolutely no understanding necessary.
> Takes 5 minutes at most.
>
> and YES, I've been considering how to best explain that in the cg, and
> YES, I've been thinking about how to organize the squad so that this
> is less likely to happen in the future, and YES, the situation was
> under control.

Am I to understand that a programming error should have a bug report?  
I, like dmytro, was simply confused as to what the problem was, and  
what the expected should have been. Something on this level gets  
filed (in my brain) as "programmer stuff" which I just accept as "too  
difficult for me to understand".