Bugzilla -- sort-of

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 3 Oct 2011 17:42:29 -0400 jcard21 xxxxxxx <jcard21+gnucash at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 14:58, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Colin Scott wrote:
> >> At last count, there were 279 unconfirmed bug reports in Bugzilla,
> >> some of them dating back to 2008! Â I infer from this that there is an
> >> Â even larger number of unresolved bugs, dating back even further.
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> >> At the moment there is in too many cases no indication at all even
> >> that the bugs have been read, which discourages users from making bug
> >> Â reports. Â Worse, a user who reports a bug will usually hope that his
> >> Â report will be acted upon within some reasonable timescale, and if
> >> that is not to happen then he needs to be informed, so he can decide
> >> whether or not he can live with the reported bug until it gets fixed
> >> (assuming it ever does!)
> >>
> >> This little diatribe is the result, in case you haven't guessed, of
> >> sending some bug reports in the black hole that is bugzilla!
> >>
> > My monotribe is a little different.
> 
> This question is a little off topic, but what is a "monotribe"? I'm
> pretty sure it is not a word in the English language.
> 
> Any link to a legitimate definition would be enlightening! :-)

I would  guess it is some bastardization of "monolog" (eg what Jay Leno
does at the start of the Tonight Show) and a diatribe...

> 

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