[Samuel Bronson]
Francois Pinard wrote:
P.S. - Is there an email address I could use for such nits, instead of bothering the whole list?
Am I supposed to be bothered by nits? Huh? Nobody told me about this! ;-).
This message is sent in chat mode. You may skip it! :-) I've been reporting tiny things for a lot of years, now, to many people working on big things. While most maintainers receive my comments in all happiness and simplicity, a few became quickly irritated, which is no fun for all parties involved. So I'm trying to be a bit more careful -- yet avoiding total silence, which is probably not the best solution. Nit-pickers attract nit-pickers, and a few GNU maintainers got together over time, as we were able to excruciatingly nit-pick on each other code and documentation, in all friendship and respect. Someone gave the name `Gnits' to our small, closed gang, and you might see remaining bits about so-called `Gnits standards', here and there, in some software. But this is all rather historical by now... The only constant thing is that I'm born nit-picker... :-) I'll try to follow the suggestion that was given to me, as to wander in the IRC group, hoping that it will more time-efficient than email, overall. Email is hard to beat for submitting reports. (The worse medium is bug tracking systems, with their horrible user interfaces: to me, there are worse than silence.) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard