From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2004-02-25T22:29:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Rexml xpath question

Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message news:<45477405382.20040224205833@soyabean.com.au>...
> > Nope.  That's a bug.  Thanks for finding that; in the future, you
> > might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I'm not reliable
> > about reading this newsgroup.
> 
> 
> REXML is distributed with Ruby, so you'll never be able to prevent
> people from posting issues here, and nor should you.  The only

Oh, I couldn't prevent people from posting here.  What I'm saying is
that if you post your bug report to this newsgroup, it may be a long
while before I see it, and it may get lost entirely.

If someone wants to give me access to an NNTP server that carries this
newsgroup, with posting permissions, my ability to scan for bug
reports would improve.  However, it is unlikely that anybody is going
to be successful at forcing me to spend more time trolling the
newsgroups for bug reports anytime soon.

REXML, like most open source projects, has an official bug reporting
mechanism.  Bugs posted there have a much better chance of being
addressed.

> reasonable process that can mitigate your lack of full attention to
> this forum (which I'm not criticising) is to ask somebody else to keep
> an eye out for you.

Are you volunteering?  That is, after all, what Ruby (and REXML) is:
volunteer work.  Things would be different if I were being paid for
this :-)

--- SER