rt.cpan.org SSH bug list roundup
News ·Friday January 27, 2006 @ 19:46 EST (link)
I visited rt.cpan.org today to check out some bugs I'd gotten emailed for Net::SSH::Perl and Net::SSH2. I think I've learned a lot at Microsoft about taking care of bugs, especially that they don't always need to be fixed. I rejected a good many because either I didn't want to add functionality to or redesign a legacy module (Net::SSH::Perl) when there's a new hotness (Net::SSH2) (although I am still fixing bugs, and in most cases I'd take a patch), or because I'd requested clarification, logs, and/or (minimal) source and the requestor hadn't replied back for six months or more, because they were dupes (people really don't check the list), because the bug was elsewhere (user code or another module or a bad install), or because it was a legacy design issue. Some I actually fixed, sometimes incorporating provided code; sometimes I fixed documentation instead.
Altogether I knocked off about 20 bugs; I wish I could take care of that many that quickly at work. (Of course the real difference is I scrub my work bug list daily and the people reporting the bugs are usually more clueful—usually SDETs and very rarely random users—although certainly not always.)
Our (Onkyo) DVD player died last Saturday (the 21st), suddenly refusing to load DVDs (it circled the 6-CD load tray and then reported NO PLAY). We'd only had it since April. Fortunately (?) we had Circuit City's CityAdvantage plan, so we were able to return it to the store at the Bellevue Crossroads mall (the site says it needs to be returned by mail, but the receipt said differently). They'll repair it if possible and replace it if not. I'll definitely be reporting back about how things go.
I had 5 bugs at the beginning of the week and my goal was to get to 4 (it goes by percentages); unsurprisingly I had another 10 dumped on me and my build was failing. My stats stood at about -500% until I finally got Word to build on Wednesday, because of the small delta. I'm now down to 3, which is 200% of my goal (the small delta works both ways) and I may knock off another few this weekend (although one requires Windows Vista so that's pretty hard to work on unless testing has set up a machine for me to terminal serve into).
Honey left Tuesday to fly to her parents' in WV to attend her grandfather Isiah (I think that's how it's spelt, it's not like Isaiah in the Bible, although he'd say it was) Hedrick's funeral, her father's father. She'll be back Monday.
We hope to get into the house by February 2nd if the sellers can get into their new place by then (they're waiting for a key from their builder who's waiting for a permit from city hall); if not, we expect to be in by the 13th. We're certainly looking forward to it.
