The DeBug Team

Reinier Sterkenburg

(site master, editor)

Stefan Hoffmeister

(co-ordinator, but temporary unable to fullfill this)
Home Page

Neil Booth

(checker)
Compiler/RTL/IDE; VCL/RTTI

Arjen Broeze

(co-ordinator while Stefan is away)

Glenn Crouch

(checker)
VCL/Object Pascal/Math/Novell/Win95

Xavier van Dessel

(checker)
Pascal/OO/VCL/components/IDE;Interbase

Duncan Murdoch

(checker)
Compiler/RTL/IDE Home page

Erik Sperling Johansen

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

Chris Rankin

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

Brad Stowers

Monitor DDJ-thread
Home Page

Hallvard Vassbotn

(checker, unofficial monitor) (D1/D2/D3)
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@poboxes.com", 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 will add a WWW forward, too, resulting in a hopefully never changing address of http://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?

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  History

  From March 96 to August 97, Reinier Sterkenburg has maintained the Delphi Bug List, mostly by himself. It became clear that handling all incoming messages about real or suspected bugs in Delphi was too much work for one person. Even when, from time to time, people helped a lot by checking bug reports, ther still wasn't enough time to handle all the work. In the summer of 97, Reinier was contacted by Stefan Hoffmeister and Stefan took the initiative to work out a plan to form a group of people that work together on the Bug List and organize things efficiently. In August, people were asked to join and the group has started (is starting) work.