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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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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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Flammie, generally nobody from nowhere in the internet. |
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Uninteresting generic profile at |
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<URL: http://cs.joensuu.fi/%7Etpirinen> |
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