general guidelines for bug reporting or "question asking"
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg64067] general guidelines for bug reporting or "question asking"
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:14:13 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
After many years of using computers, I am sure many of us frequently come across descriptions of how to ask for help on discussion forums or how to file bug reports. I came across this one for the GNU make utility, which I thought was particularly succinct. http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_chapter/make_1.html#SEC4 Anyway, if I could just remember and adapt this the next time I'm asking some inane question about propagation of precision or coupled differential equations, maybe you all would have one less person to worry about :-]