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Good news, bad news: abiword version

Good news: Filed an abiword bug, and was able to narrow down the source of the problem, giving steps to reproduce, creating a thesis about the source of the bug, and successfully testing the thesis, like a good bug filer should.

Bad news: A 1.5M, 143 page document is not really an ideal minimal testcase.

Worse news: I’d have preferred to notice this kind of bug before I created two 140+ page documents that trigger the bug.

[Yes, those are my collected, organized class notes, one class each. Tomorrow, rinse and repeat with Civil Procedure.]

Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Sunday, December 3, 2006, at 12:14 am by Luis. Filed in school, software.

3 Comments

  1. Nathan

    Ooh- I feel your pain. Recently, filed a bug in Kformula under very similar circumstances.

    PPS. Don’t forget the Solstice concert at St. John the Divine.

    Posted on 03-Dec-06 at 8:44 am | Permalink
  2. Frankenstein

    Have fun boiling down your notes into an outline.

    Posted on 04-Dec-06 at 12:18 am | Permalink
  3. Luis

    Bundles of fun. What else could I have? I’m actually using the TOC for the doc as the outline; it seems to have worked fairly well for some mid-term practice exams, and gave a nice easy reference in case of panic. The TOC is what is creating the Abiword problem, though.

    Posted on 04-Dec-06 at 12:30 am | Permalink