At 02:57 PM 4/28/2004 -0500, you wrote:

1. Lack of complaints doesn't mean that he problem is rare. >

Mark brings up an interesting issue. I'd kind of like to get the sense of the community on this. Given that, unlike Ifeffit itself, Artemis and Athena are beta versions (a "0" starts the version number), all of us who use that software are beta testers. Thus part of our responsibilities, in exchange for getting to use really nifty and cutting-edge software, is to report bugs to Bruce. Unfortunately, reporting bugs in a responsible way is somewhat time-consuming (not nearly as time-consuming as writing the software in the first place, of course!). For example, a really minor bug which has already been discussed is the one that occasionally makes the right panel of Athena get wide. It's not something that bothers me, but it's clearly a bug. I don't feel like I'm being helpful, though, if I report to Bruce that something like this "occasionally" happens without being able to make it happen reproducibly. So I never reported it. If, on the other hand, some bug is either making it harder for me to do what I want to do, or it seems likely to cause some other unsuspecting user grief, or I can see exactly under what circumstances it occurs, I generally investigate and make a bug report. So my question is what perspective everyone (and especially Bruce) has on the trade-off between tracking down every bug so as to give Bruce full reports and spending the time actually using this great software for analysis. --Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College