On 05/28/2013 01:48 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Please don't take this as a criticism, because it's not. One reason
that people don't like to ask the maintainers for ANYTHING is the
frequency with which requests are met with comments on how busy
everyone is, and the occasional reply from someone suggesting that
"you have source, why don't you fix that yourself." I also get notices
that bugs of long standing have become WONTFIX because no one got
around to them in a year.
It isn't a perfect system. In all my time as a Fedora contributor, I
have never seen any package maintainer suggest that because you have the
source you can fix it yourself but I guess that can happen rarely but it
is more common that some of the bug reports don't get resolved in time.
Reporting bugs should really be seen as a way to contribute rather than
just a way to get the fix you want. Most of the package maintainers are
volunteers and they get asked to do things all the time and often more
than they can really handle. There are literally hundreds of bug reports
filed and fixed on a regular basis. You don't have to take my word for
it. Just login #fedorabot in freenode IRC and look at the number of
updates being pushed out daily. Majority of them are bug fix updates.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/metrics/?release=F18&_csrf_token=415d9ac0c6576d9dc425bb4f1c682d8723b1f19e
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/metrics/?release=F17&_csrf_token=415d9ac0c6576d9dc425bb4f1c682d8723b1f19e
We do have new contributors signing up on a regular basis but we are
dealing with a ever growing repository of packages and the demand always
exceeds supply
Rahul
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