R devel - Dec 2015 - Question about bug reporting, and the followup process

Hi,

I sent in three bug-reports (maybe should have been 4, because the 
second contains an "enhancement" as well as well as a bug).

I do not set "Importance", ever - or, is that the custom here?

Regards,
Michael

p.s. - maybe related - is it best practice to add [Rd] in the subject 
line, or is there a program doing that instead?

On 16/12/2015 12:31 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I sent in three bug-reports (maybe should have been 4, because the
> second contains an "enhancement" as well as well as a bug).
>
> I do not set "Importance", ever - or, is that the custom here?
We generally ignore it, so your current practice is fine.  The problem 
is that none of the core developers use AIX, so it's unlikely anyone 
will be able to test and fix your problems.  You'll need to find an AIX 
expert, or fix them yourself.

Duncan Murdoch
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> p.s. - maybe related - is it best practice to add [Rd] in the subject
> line, or is there a program doing that instead?
>
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On 2015-12-16 16:40, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> We generally ignore it, so your current practice is fine.  The problem 
> is that none of the core developers use AIX, so it's unlikely anyone 
> will be able to test and fix your problems.  You'll need to find an 
> AIX expert, or fix them yourself.
>
> Duncan Murdoch 
I have answered this twice, but still do not see it.

A) I am an AIX expert, not an R expert. I am willing to assist, 
longish-term for matters re: R on AIX.

B) If I fix something (e.g., the suggestions in the bug-reports, in 
particular for configure.ac related "stuff" - how do I submit a patch?
(Did not find anything suitable in R-forge.)

C) Bug 16633 - https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16633 
is all platforms, not just AIX. And I am not attempting to fix it on my 
own, because there is an architectural element involved (namely, does 
the library, or libR own the symbol.

Thanks,
Michael

p.s. Duncan, maybe my previous replies were to you only - my mistake and 
please forgive the double emails.