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Re: [Bug 674089] Re: User part fileds sometimes slide up into Datasheet field and below

To: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:24:13 -0500
In-reply-to: <20110811175506.1357.58879.malone@gac.canonical.com>
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On 08/11/2011 12:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Clyde,
>
> Dick's assessment that this bug report has been address because he fixed
> the data sheet field from getting clobbered is correct.  I have opened a
> new bug report that address the recent discussion of fields with no
> value getting deleted when closing the component edit dialog.  You can
> follow the conversation at https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/824592.
>
> Wayne

Yes, and look at the excellent quality of that report, which gives a procedure
containing step by step user action to reproduce it!

A bug report this well written gets more attention than what you might otherwise
call a "drive by bug report".  One that says, "hopefully you can go find it."  Not.

Dick