Bugs
I've been told that I have a special talent, but I think I'm just cursed:
every single time I try a new software, within the first hours (or even minutes) of using it, I find a bug.
Below is a list of the bugs I've reported over the years, mostly for my own reference. Some links are to patches I submitted.
- Perl and various modules:
- Padre - the Perl IDE
- Array::Compare
- Catalyst::Action::REST
- Catalyst::Action::Serialize::XML::Simple
Catalyst::DevelCatalyst::Helper::Model::DBIC::Schema (patch)Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader- Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
- Catalyst::Runtime
- Catalyst::Test
Config::JFDI- CPAN::SQLite
Data::ID::Exim- DateTime
- DateTime::Format::Duration
- DBIx::Class:
producer type
- DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn
Email::Simple- ExtUtils::MakeMaker: prompt broken on Windows, w/ patch
- HTML::FormFu
- HTML::GenToc
- HTML::Toc
- HTML::Tree
- HTML::WikiConverter::Markdown -
1, 2, 3, 4
- IPC::Cmd -
doc patch 1, doc patch 2
JSON::Converter- KiokuDB -
POD update
- KiokuDB::Backend::DBI -
test warnings, entries.data as TEXT
- libwww-perl
Math::Int2base- POD::HTML
- Pod::ProjectDocs
- RTF::Writer
- SQL::Translator:
PostgreSQL timestamp, sqlite_version lost, SQLFairy: writable views
- Spreadsheet::WriteExcel: error on extra parens in formula, spurious error on null formulas
- Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate::BaseTest
- Template::Toolkit:
numification vs. stringification, localized filters
Test::Builder- Test::WWW::Mechanize - fails on Windows again
- URI::Escape::XS
path loss
- XML::LibXSLT
- XML::Twig - credits; bugs:
subs_text & entities, CDATA buffer overflow, comments at EOF, fake elements in XPath, get_xpath hangs
- Win32::GUI
- WWW::Mechanize
WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder- YAML::Syck etc.
- Aptana
- ActiveState Komodo IDE
- Beyond Compare 3
- Bonita - the open source workflow project - use UTF8 damnit, auto-wrap, editable description
- Chrome
- CodeMirror (JavaScript-based source code editor)
- Comodo. Verified issues: reverse lookup the IP, show what service is behind svchost.exe, upgrade wipes event log
- Compare It!
- DeltaCopy (Windows port of rsync)
- dmake
- the dojo JavaScript toolkit
- Eclipse
- Filezilla
- Firebug
- Firefox and addons:
- Foswiki - commits and checkin count
- gallery2
- Gnumeric
- jQuery: .ajax({jsonp:...}), REST-style JSONP callback option,
automatic src timestamping
- LibreOffice
- the lighttpd web server
- Apache log4j
- Midnight Commander - Linux text-mode dual-pane file manager
- MyBB
- MySQL - Windows archive bug, other bugs
- Necromancer's Dos Navigator (NDN) - Windows and Linux text-mode dual-pane file manager
- the nginx web server
- Notepad++: %APPDATA% web site error
- OpenOffice
- Opera browser
- the PHP programming language
- Pidgin - open-source IM client
- R
- Redmine
- Selenium - web application testing framework
- Sysinternal's Process Explorer
- Trac (open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool)
- TWiki
- XShell: 1, 2, 3
- The KMPlayer
- ViPlay
- Winamp
- WinSCP - dual-pane Windows SCP and SFTP client
- Wireshark
- XnView
- ZABBIX - system monitoring
- ZOC terminal emulator; forum posts (mostly bug reports; search requires login to return all results)
- BSPlay, DPEG, IrfanView, Mp3 Direct Cut, Pegasus, TamoSoft Essential NetTools, Web2Pop
- AWK, Delphi, Turbo and Borland Pascal and C
- the TMX 1.4b specification and even RFC 2047.
- Android - itself (esp. repeatedly escalating (on Twitter too) the unlock pattern security risk) and applications:
- Numerous high-profile web applications: