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On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 16 May 2017 11:19:17 -0700 |
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> James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > This is one of those situations where talking about a problem |
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>> > becomes a problem... |
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>> While I certainly understand what you're saying, I think this is a |
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>> slippery slope - "Don't talk about our problems, people will notice, |
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>> we need to pretend to be perfect!" leads to actual problems |
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>> festering, going unresolved, and becoming much larger than they |
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>> should be. It's also *very* much not in the spirit of Open Source. |
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> It's also against the Social Contract. |
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Note that I never said that people shouldn't be allowed to talk about |
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problems. I merely said that doing so in this case is probably |
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contrary to their own interests. |
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And I'm talking about these nebulous "not enough people are working on |
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the stuff I want them to work on for free" problems. If nobody is |
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fixing a bug it is because nobody cares enough to fix it. There |
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probably isn't a single pull request in github that wouldn't be fixed |
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in 30 seconds if some user offered a million dollar bounty for it. |
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I'm not saying that anybody has a duty to do this. Rather, we're all |
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getting what we collectively pay for, or contribute to. |
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Rich |
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