{"id":4879,"date":"2011-06-16T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2011-06-17T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:00:12","slug":"bugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4879","title":{"rendered":"Bugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since some time in April, a bug in the software at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal.com<\/a> has kept me from logging into it, and from logging into other sites using that same software, with my <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/\">Open<abbr title=\"identification\">ID<\/abbr><\/a>.  To-day I received an admission that the problem hasn't been worked and is not likely to be worked any time soon.  If you're an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\"><abbr title=\"LiveJournal\">LJ<\/abbr><\/a> friend who posts nothing but <code>Friends<\/code>-only or otherwise filtered entries, then you might as well write me off.<\/p> <hr width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" \/> <p>More generally, my experience filing bug reports has not been very happy.  <a href=\"?p=4307\">I've recently reported my problems with the formula editor of OpenOffice.<\/a><\/p> <p><a href=\"?p=3017\">Rather longer ago than that, I noted how WordPress, after letting two dead-lines slip, had just <em>un<\/em>-scheduled a bug-fix by setting a <q>milestone<\/q> of <q>Future Release<\/q>.<\/a>  This morning,  I discovered that a spurious claim that the bug was not manifest had caused the report to be closed about three weeks ago.  After I was compelled to jump through some otherwise superfluous hoops, it was plainly established that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> indeed had exactly the bug that I'd reported (on 29 April 2008), and that, from my initial description, the point of failure could have been quickly found and fixed.  A patch was filed, and I thought that the fix would be scheduled for the next bug-fixing release (3.1.4 or 3.2.0, whichever came first), but then the <q>milestone<\/q> was instead re-set for <q>Future Release<\/q>.  It might still be fixed in the next release, but there is simply no assurance of that. (I can hack my own installation, of course.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since some time in April, a bug in the software at LiveJournal.com has kept me from logging into it, and from logging into other sites using that same software, with my OpenID. To-day I received an admission that the problem hasn't been worked and is not likely to be worked any time soon. If you're [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,5,4],"tags":[51,145,146,3,1023,222,459,13],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-blogs","tag-bugs","tag-html","tag-livejournal","tag-lj","tag-openid","tag-software","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}