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maillog: 28/07/2004-07:55:16(+0100): Tom Wesley types |
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> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:46 +0300, Tommi Pirinen wrote: |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > >I've been flamed by a couple of users for not adding a broken gtk-2 file |
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> > >selector patch to gvim. There're several "please add my horridly broken |
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> > >ebuild for this lame package which is full of bugs and unmaintained |
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> > >upstream" bugs which I'd love to close as WONTFIX, but past experience |
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> > >has shown that it's generally easiest to just leave them alone. Closing |
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> > >a bug as WONTFIX really upsets some people, no matter what the reason. |
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> > >If I ignore a bug instead, chances are no-one's gonna know that I'm the |
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> > >person to flame :) |
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> > > |
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> > Well, there will unfortunately be some of those kind of users as well. |
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> > But still, when bumping in to bugs like this all an end user sees is |
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> > that there's an untouched bug that no one seems to care about, most |
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> > probably the user won't know the brokedness of issue but will rather |
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> > deduce ignorance or laziness of maintainers. The issue is problematic |
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> > though, and I don't know a definitive answer which would work for all, |
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> > but I'd still like a bit more response to bug reports from time to time. |
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> > It's very frustrating to send bug reports when it seems that no one |
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> > reads them. |
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> I agree with this point. If a dev is scared (/me uses word gently in |
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> case my vision of an angry Scott as Ciaran is true) of marking bugs they |
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> wont fix as WONTFIX then they just appear untouched and obviously adds a |
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> huge amount of apparently open bugs. |
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> Surely a quick comment to say "Patch breaks <something> and not |
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> supported upstream, WONTFIX" is better in that case |
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I'd also like to add that intentionally leaving a bug open in this case |
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is *very* irresponsible. |
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