On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:16:38 +0000, Sam wrote: > I don't speak for any kind of majority, but my contribution to > "making" Fedora is pretty much zilch. I file the occasional bug, I > help out other users where I can, but I'm not currently a Fedora > Developer or Fedora Packager. Problem reports _are_ contributions, too, provided that they are filed in a relevant tracking system. With the added note that the "better" the reports and the more responsive the reporter, the more useful the reports can get. Reporting bugs and attaching good backtraces in bugzilla is much preferred over bitching and moaning on mailing-lists on message boards, of course. Testers and bug reporters are an important part of the Fedora community even. Some pick packages they like and increase the involvement by working together with the package maintainer more closely. This can go as far as creating a Fedora account and participating in bug triaging or becoming a co-maintainer or a specific package's bugzilla master. It is in the nature of bugs that the person who is bitten may be the only one (or one of a very few) who can tell more about an incident. The person's commitment can be very important. The assumption, that thousands of other users would be affected by the same bug, often is wrong. The community works best if whoever is hit by a bug contributes a bit of personal time and effort on helping with locating and squashing that particular bug. Don't rush, but don't treat other people like your slaves either. To sit and wait and hope for magic and other people to work on your bugs it can lead to frustration -- when discovering that a bug has survived and is still found in the next distribution release for whatever reasons there may be. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
