From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ba18d626276a71e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada Date: 1997/07/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255516292 References: <33BBB704.167E@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com> <5pn0u4$1cs@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> <5potsi$fc1@top.mitre.org> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Michael Brenner said <>Towards a free GNU Ada 6 Jul 1997 20:06 The part I agree with is that it would be useful to the entire Ada community to see bugs tracked in public, along with the programs that failed. The failed programs are actually more useful, because they can be used to test other baselines. >> Robert replies The great majority of programs that we get are proprietary code that we protect extremely carefully. Public posting of this code is out of the question. It would be possible to have some scheme of identifying code that could be posted, but providing such a public tracking system for all bugs would take a lot of extra work, and is not somethinfg that we could do unless someone paid for the time involved. Volunteer help would not useful in this task. Bug tracking requires very careful management and contro,l, it is not something that can be done in a haphazard manner.