[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
*taps the mic....

Just wanted to add a post in order to increase this thread's UPCHUK (Useless Posts Confusing Human Understanding of Knowledge) ratio.

I respectfully disagree with your statement that every bug report, stock or not, helps. You see, this thread is for bug reports concerning the STOCK kernel and ROM.

When people report problems they are having with a custom kernel, especially when they do so without clarifying what kernel they are talking about, then two very bad things happen....first of all Pawitp (or any other developer) can spend valuable time trying to run down a bug that has nothing to do with their own code, but rather is due to someone else's kernel or the way their kernel interacts with the ROM. Not only would they be unable to diagnose such an issue, but even if they could they would not be able to fix it. In the past on previous versions of CM for SGS I know that entire days have been spent hunting nonexistent bugs due to such bug reports.

Such wastes of time due to nothing more then user ignorance and impatience wastes the time the devs could be spending on improving the ROM itself and adding new features, as well as pissing them off. A pissed off dev, especially one who feels that their work is being received ungratefully by a greedy, truculent user base will not do their best work and eventually chuck it all and go off and volunteer to do some other thankless task that eats up countless hours with no hope of a decent income in sight...such as teaching school.

Secondly, and I am sure to many of us the more important issue, the user won't get the help and support they desire since they are asking their question in the wrong place. Such things can only be solved and properly discussed when reported in their proper thread...otherwise they are just noise. It is a bit like someone in an old age home sitting in the bath tub howling that they want to go to the amusement park that closed in 1954. Poignant? Sure, useful...no. Harmful? Definitely if gramps gets a gun.

Therefore it is totally wrong to say that reporting bugs in other kernels in this thread helps the rom...in fact it wastes time and resources while it also sows confusion, resentment and disappointment. To condone such behavior with "Awww...but snookums meant well..." platitudes is demeaning to the person who posted the question (assuming they are too ignorant or childish to follow a simple rule), the devs (assuming their time is ours for the taking and wasting due to our own arrogance and failure to grasp simple concepts) and your fellow CM users (who have to put up with page after page of pointless questions, people berating and complaining about such questions, and sanctimonious long-winded posts such as this one).

Every bug about a custom kernel reported here, no matter how serious, actually DIMINISHES the scope of human knowledge. That is a very dangerous thing to do considering just what idiots most of us really are.

Oh, and also, as for the "Now get out" part being rude....it was a bit curt and sarcastic, but rude? There is this thing called the Internets....go into a place called 4chan and ask "Why are you all so rude???"....then document the responses to understand what "rude" really means. There, the behavior is born of evil and really bad parenting...here, such impatience is a part of being frustrated by endless repetitions of the same flavor of stupid. It isn't always nice, but it is usually fair.

OK, now you can all go back to complaining and biting the heads off whippets.