[Adium-devl] Leopard Tickets

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

> Obviously we can't commit fixes for the issues mentioned and it's also
> possible that the issue itself could change before it goes final.   
> Should we
> just make an official policy of closing them as invalid and telling  
> the
> submitter to reopen it one release day if it's still a problem, or  
> should we
> keep them around for those of you running Leopard to maintain  
> locally and
> then commit as soon as it's no longer NDA'd (yes, I know, October  
> is a VERY
> long time from now so I don't really like this idea either).  Just  
> looking
> for some additional input on this issue.

Fixing Leopard bugs is not a violation of the NDA.  Revealing non- 
public information, however, is.  Since, generally speaking, all  
programs which run on 10.4 should be able to also run on 10.5 so long  
as they are not (a) using deprecated APIs which were removed in 10.5  
or (b) taking advantage of coincidental bugs or internal APIs of 10.4  
which are fixed/changed in 10.5, it should be the case that all  
crashes in 10.5 can be fixed using only 10.4-compatible code.  The  
betas exist so that programs are compatible with Leopard from Day 1  
of its release.

If the crash is a result of a 10.5 beta bug, of course, it's a  
different story -- one hopes the issue itself would change before  
10.5 is final.  Such crashes should be milestoned "Waiting on Apple"  
with a note that this appears to be a 10.5 regression; a developer  
with official access to the Leopard builds should file a radar and  
note the radar number in that ticket.

-Evan
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