The DeBug Team

Reinier Sterkenburg

(site master, editor)

Neil Booth

(checker)
Specialized in: Compiler/RTL/IDE; VCL/RTTI

Glenn Crouch

(checker)
(Team Nevrona, Addict Support, Delphi List Moderator)
Specialized in: VCL/Object Pascal/Math/Novell
E-mail: glenn_AT_esbconsult.com.au
Manager Software Development, ESB Consultancy
Home of ESBStats, ESBPDF and ESBCalc
Web page: www.esbconsult.com.au

Anders Melander

(checker; general support)
Specialized in Graphics stuff, threads and more
Home page

Duncan Murdoch

(checker)
Specialized in: Compiler/RTL/IDE
Home page

Erik Sperling Johansen

(checker, monitor) (95/NT4)
Specialized in: Compiler/RTL/IDE; VCL/RTTI; WinAPI/threads/services/low-level; COM/OLE
Erik's Home Page

Chris Rankin

(checker) (W95; D2 Dev + D3 Prof)
Specialized in: Compiler/RTL/IDE

Brad Stowers

Monitor DDJ-thread
Home Page

Hallvard Vassbotn

(checker, unofficial monitor) (D1/D2/D3)
Specialized in: Compiler/RTL/IDE; Database, VCL (database); VCL/RTTI; COM/OLE

Organization

• Larger group of people working together
  The names of the people who are now active are mentioned above.
  Tasks of each person/role have been discussed and establihed.
• Central email address

There is now a central Email address, "DelphiBugList_AT_poboxes.com", (replace _AT_ with @; we had to take anti-spam measures) to which all bug reports should be sent. From that address, the bugs are forwarded to the "co-ordinator". If the co-ordinator is unavailable because of holidays or other duties, he will take care that the bug reports will be sent to a different DeBug Team member who handles them then.
We have added a WWW forward, too, resulting in a hopefully never changing address of www.poboxes.com/DelphiBugList
• Accept bugs in more languages

We now accept bug reports in Danish, Dutch, English, German, French, Norwegian and Swedish - basically all languages where we have fluent (not necessarily native) speakers. There seems to be a high psychological barrier if people need to report in English. Bugs of course will be published in English.
• Stricter policy
In the past, bug reports in all forms were accepted. Although a lot of bug reports were very clear and technically well-described, also a significant part had qualities that made it rather cumbersome to handle them: - more bug reports in one message (makes administration difficult)
- unreproducible bugs, vague descriptions
- and sometimes not bugs but simply questions for help
To be able to work more efficient and handle more bug reports, we decided that we need bug reports that are easier to check. What this means is laid out on our separate Bug reporting policy page.
• Which version of Delphi are you referring to?

History