Re: Bug plot after calling plotyy

[Philip Nienhuis]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> On 26 January 2013 20:05, Lourenço <

> lourencojunior@

> > wrote:
>> On 26 January 2013 21:58, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <

> jordigh@

> > wrote:
>>> On 26 January 2013 18:01, Lourenco <

> lourenco.usp@

> > wrote:
>>>> I reported this issue at stackoverflow:
>>>>
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14533543/error-plotting-data-read-from-csv-file
>>>
>>> We're doing something wrong if your first impression is to report bugs
>>> to Stack Overflow instead of to us:
>>>
>>>     http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bugs.html
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions on how to make it clearer how to report
>>> Octave bugs? When you start Octave, there is a message that tells you
>>> how to report bugs. How can we make it more likely for you to read
>>> this message?
>>
>> Thank you so much for you explanation, Jordi. It's quite likely to
>> read that message, no doubt. However, I think I did not write
>> perfectly what I mean. When I wrote ``reported this issue at'', I
>> would like to mean that the details of the problem I face are
>> described there. I must apologize for my bad words.
> 
> It appears I am still not being clear.
> 
> You think it's a bug. I agree. The page linked above suggests that
> 
>     If Octave produces an error message for valid input, that is a bug.
> 
> which seems to be precisely the situation here.
> 
> If you think it is a bug, please report it. You may choose not to, but
> bug reporting is a helpful activity for the Octave project. The point
> of reporting bugs isn't for them to be fixed for you. It's a courtesy
> to other users and to developers so that we may have a public record
> of Octave's shortcomings. Someone may choose to fix that bug, as a
> further courtesy.
> 
> So, let me reiterate: bug reports are very welcome. Is there a way we
> can make this clearer? We want bug reports, and we want them here:
> 
>     http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=octave
> 
> So please, please, please, report bugs!

Please please please first check if this is a duplicate of bug #37290  :-)

(which has already been solved in the dev sources)

Philip



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