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Re: Maintaining a Mathematica bug list

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg97396] Re: Maintaining a Mathematica bug list
• From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:21:13 -0500 (EST)
• References: <gp802s$1j5$1@smc.vnet.net>

Maris Ozols wrote:
 >
> I would like to encourage Mathematica users to express their thoughts
> regarding whether such a step is really necessary. I am certain that
> WRI have enough resources to allocate for improving the communication
> with the Mathematica user community. I think that it is just a
> question of recognizing the problem and willing to solve it.
> Mathematica is really a great tool and we all are willing to
> contribute to make it even more better!

I think that it is certainly good to be aware of some of the more 
nasty/unexpected bugs (like the Tally bug from 6 that was fortunately 
fixed in 7).  A public database would help with that.

> 
>> Do you know of something like this that exists
>> already for any other software product?

The following would be a good start:

http://getsatisfaction.com/wolfram

It's not exactly a bug database, but it needs no setup, and it's 
accessible to anyone.  The company may choose to participate if they 
wish so.