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Good bug reports worth their weight in gold

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It was more than two years ago, in the predictions for 2010 thread that I crossed words with kaakuu over Drupal and unicode text search. I told kaakuu to file a usable bug report -- and to be honest I didn't expect one. Much to my surprise he did participate in an issue and filed an exceptionally useful comment. Eight days later, the fix I written got committed, fixing search for 200 million+ users or who knows how many more were affected. And I learned a lot about Unicode. Why I am writing only now, I do not know but I have told this story over and over and such helpful bug reports are still very rare. Will you file the next one I will talk about for years?

Ps. Yes, I am a little bothered by my own attitude in the forum thread. But at least I fixed the bug.

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