On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:52:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Given these resource limitations, bug reporters have to be selective > in their reporting. The volume of code and the number of problems to > report is literally more than they can handle. In order to handle the > workload, they filter ruthlessly. If a project takes months to answer > a bug report, or repeatedly asks to retest or confirm a problem no one > has looked at still exists, that's unlikely to get as much attention > as a project that is quick to process reports and does not make > reporters feel they're wasting their time. I'm not saying that this is > good, bad, or indifferent, but simply a fact of life in the open > source world. I can tell you that is in fact true for my case. I cerntainly don't have the time to report and deal with followups for every issue I run accross in Fedora. I prioritize based in part in how important the issue is to me and how likely I think other people are to report an issue. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
