> Jochen -
> One thing I've noticed following the HACKERS list for a while, is that
> the developers are very good at helping turn not-reproducible bugs into
> reproducible ones, as well. By that I mean, they can often help narrow
> the scope of variables to consider significant, based on the exact error
> message, even if it's a rare bug. Sometimes, just knowing a particular
> error can be triggered on anyone's system can lead a developer in the
> right direction when back-tracing possible execution paths, and often
> suggest some simple tests. As I said, I've seen it happen more than
> once in the last year. I understand your reticence in reporting bugs
> without a simple reproducible test case: it's worthless when contacting
> your typical commercial vendor, where your talking to some code tester,
> who probably isn't a developer.
Another thing is that when we hear a few unrepeatable bug reports, we
usually get cracking at finding the cause. Also, sometimes some one
will come along with a reproducable case, and we jump on that case very
quickly because we know others are seeing the problem too.
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