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...people would reasonably like at least to see a minimal but complete and well written example exhibiting the problem, complete of relevant error messages or logs...

I disagree. The question was not "This isn't working; what am I doing wrong?" it was "I've found a bug; how do I alert the maintainers?" Posting code is not appropriate in such a case. Of course, it could have been an XY Problem, but jumping to the conclusion that it was is not justified.

I think Win's question was entirely appropriate. Sure, the answer involved a lot of "RTFM" and other LART brandishing... but then, most SoPWs do.

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Re^4: Perl DBI issue
by Jenda (Abbot) on Mar 12, 2007 at 22:01 UTC

    Well. I do bet that it is actually a "This isn't working; what am I doing wrong?" Placeholders do work with "EXEC StoredProc ..." with MS SQL using DBD::ODBC. I'm doing that all the time. So if Win did include some code exhibiting the "bug" we could tell him what is he donig wrong.

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      Not to mention that if there were a bug the maintainer's going to need a bit more detail than "placeholders don't work" in order to reproduce it at the least (and preferably a short snippet, along with any supporting structure, that reliably reproduces the problem).

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        Sure, but PerlMonks isn't the place to post that code. The bug report is the place for it.

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Re^4: Perl DBI issue
by blazar (Canon) on Mar 14, 2007 at 22:39 UTC
    I disagree. The question was not "This isn't working; what am I doing wrong?" it was "I've found a bug; how do I alert the maintainers?" Posting code is not appropriate in such a case. Of course, it could have been an XY Problem, but jumping to the conclusion that it was is not justified.

    I disagree, too. To paraphrase what someone else wrote, "whenever anyone claims a Perl bug, the first thing I suspect is a hardware issue (probably a loose nut behind the keyboard)". Now, this may not be the case, but if the one reporting the alleged bug were a renown Perl hacker, it would be easier for me to believe it. When one is renown for not being a Perl hacker at all, let alone anything above the bare newbie, I would expect him or her to post some evidence and/or to investigate whether the "bug" is actually a bug.

    So I am speaking out of prejudice, but hey, an informed one.

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