There are times when you need some big words to impress people. Proactively embiggen your reputation, leveraging intellectual stimuli to cause synergetic paradigm shifts. That kind of big words. So here's a good one for all discussions about computer programming and programming languages:
But we need to give you some context so you know when to use it and when it's not appropriate. So let's start with Turing. That's just the family name of Alan Turing, a british mathematician who committed suicide because he was gay and the secret service was unable to employ such perverted people (what a dark age that was ...). He was also involved in code cracking in the second World War and one of the early pioneers of digital computing. But because he was a maths guy he tried to model computers abstracly so he could deduce what they can effectively compute.
So as a thought experiment he abstracted a computing device to be a tape to store things, a read/write head that can move along the tape and some internal state of the machinery that decides what to do next. So for example the abstract turing machine would read a "1" from the tape, look in its state and then decide to write a "0" there and move one field to the left. Keep in mind that no such machine really exists, it's just a mental model for discussing computability. Also you may notice an interesting abstraction: Wether the machine reads a "1" or a "red flower" symbol is equivalent. Numbers are symbols, and symbols are numbers. Mmmmh ...
Anyways, now you have a theoretical model. And with that you can discuss wether a specific problem is computable, which just means "can a Turing machine calculate it". Of course there are other models of computation, but the Turing machine is a standard model that is surprisingly strong. And here comes the great trick: If you can write a turing machine emulator (with some restrictions) in a programming language it is considered turing complete, and you can do everything in it that other turing-complete languages can. So if Python and Java are both Turing-complete there is no Java program that can't be written in Python too. It may be very different, but the input and output should be the same.
So there, you've learned a nice lesson of buzzwords. Use them wisely!
Can you reproduce it? For example compile failures can happen randomly when the computer overheats (CPU, RAM, mainboard), the harddisk is damaged or the filesystem is broken. All that can happen without prior warning. If there are hardware problems usually you can find some hints in the output of "dmesg".
Is it really a bug? Maybe what you are seeing is a documented feature. Think about what you just did and maybe check the documentation. Sometimes what you think is a bug is a conscious design decision!
"Gnome doesn't work" is not a useful bug description. It is always true, but it doesn't help narrowing down what just happened. Try to be as precise as possible in describing how it happens so that other people can reproduce it. "The Gnome desktop crashes when clicking on the weird foot-like icon thingy" is better. "After upgrading to gnome-1.4_beta2 the X-Server is killed when I try to start nautilus" is a very precise description.
There's some rather trivial things that people tend to forget. But those little things can make jakub angry and close your bug as RESOLVED WONTFIX
This is not really complicated, but if you're not used to it you may want to do it slowly and read exactly what you do. Filing a bug in the wrong category or filing it with incomplete data will cost you a beer, payable to jakub. But don't be scared, if you can read instructions it'll work fine
Now the bug will be assigned to bugwranglers automatically. At some point in time it will either be assigned to someone who is supposed to handle it or you'll be asked to provide more info. If that bug is closed as RESOLVED INVALID read the reasoning carefully. Feel free to ask for an explanation, but don't try to bully the bugwranglers. That'll only cause empty beer bottles to be thrown at you. Feel free to join IRC, as described above, to discuss it. Maybe you can convince people it is a bug, maybe you realize it's not a bug.
So the bug has been filed and assigned. Now you can only wait until it is fixed. Or maybe you understand what happens and you manage to fix it? Even better. If you can fix it you can add your patch to bugzilla. Don't use a pastebin website or other transient things, either add it as an attachment (uncompressed!) if it is reasonably small or put it on some webspace if it is larger. If you don't have any webspace just ask in #gentoo-bugs, there's always someone who can handle it for you.
And now you're done. Time for a beer!
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