deeper freeze

[Andras Mantia]

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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 13:16, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 12:08, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > I would say that a crash is important bug and should be fixed anywhere it
> > appears. If somebody is the maintainer of app X and the app X crashes but
> > doesn't cause serious data loss, why shouldn't the maintainer of app X
> > fix the crash? It would be absurd to not do so.
>
> If you read my words I was naming "how easy to fix and how likely it is to
> happen" as two other conditions for a crash beeing major. That means if app
> X crashes in obscure situations (and unlike what Rob said, there are
> obscure situations: "when I hit F5 very quickly", "when my installation is
> broken and X can't find the wallpaper" are just two examples) and the fix
> is a one liner "if (m_widget)" I'm fine with it. But e.g. in kmail there
> are some crashes that result from unclear object life times, were kmail may
> crash when you're spelling checking while the POP server goes down -
> whatever. _That_ crash I wouldn't consider major - if the only solution is
> a rewrite of the kmail kernel.

I think this wasn't clear from your first mail. Of course this makes 
sense. ;-)

Andras

>
> Greetings, Stephan

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