Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
by nikanj on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:05PM
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Does any major desktop system have a working bug-process? Microsoft seems to respond with "reinstall and don't call us again", the various Linux distributions let the ticket wait for a few years, then mass close them with "applies to old version". Apple's "tennis with the Pacific Ocean"-response to tickets has already been widely discusses in this thread.
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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
by AsyncAwait on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:31PM
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> the various Linux distributions let the ticket wait for a few years, then mass close them with "applies to old version".
How recent is your experience, I have found this not to be really true anymore, at least for the past few years.
Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
by blumentopf on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:35PM
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This is an issue in the kernel. You don't report this to the distro vendor but to the appropriate kernel mailing list. In this case the interface to user space is broken AND it's a regression, so it would be appropriate to cc: Linus. Chances are high it's fixed in the next -rc release (i.e. within a week).
I mean, that is a great point. Bug fixing in general is not a sexy part of hackerdom. No one remarks about how great project X is with replying and fixing their bugs. It's like a working toilet, people only care once it no longer works.