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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:49:39 +0300 Tommi Pirinen |
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<tommi.pirinen@××××××××.fi> wrote: |
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| The main deal with this whole discussion to me as end user seems that |
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| gentoo's bugzilla has gotten very much of the reputation that bugs |
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| just sit there without no one noticing. As you might have noticed this |
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| concern comes up a lot in the user fora and granted, the reason might |
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| be the stupidity of users, but I'm sure it won't go away soon. Most of |
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| the people complaining about it do report at other projects as well, |
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| and from my and their experience other projects do have quite a lot |
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| better response times from bugzilla than gentoo does. Of course this |
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| bug voting wouldn't be much of help to the actual problem, more than |
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| just slowdown for the most eager bug reporters. |
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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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| >Good example: the automagic link detection before DHCP feature that |
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| >people keep on wanting in baselayout. Looks nice on the surface, lots |
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| >of people saying "yes please", but suddenly when it's implemented we |
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| >get thousands of users with broken networking because it turns out |
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| >that that nifty link detection feature isn't universally reliable. |
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| > |
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| So it's users' fault that someone implemented and released broken |
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| feature? |
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No no. It's that people keep on submitting patches for a thing which we |
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already know is broken, despite there being existing bugs documenting |
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why it ended up not working. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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