>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes: David> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:07:42 -0700 David> Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> wrote: >> Interesting you should think you're 'rewarding' people. I thought >> your goal was to have fun working on cool software and making it >> better. I also thought I had the same goal as a bug-reporter. >> >> When I write software, I care about every bug report and consider >> people doing the reporting a very valuable resource. David> The whole game changes when you are stretched as thinly as I am. David> Scaling becomes everything, and nitpicking through vague and David> poorly composed bug reports is an absolute waste of my time as David> networking subsystem maintainer. [...] Couldn't agree more. Especially after having benefited from your code so much (starting back in the early sparc days...). David> Having me pillage through a bug database is a poor use of my David> time and capabilities. And all of my time is spent reviewing David> patches and dealing with the properly composed bug reports David> anyways, so even if I enjoyed pillaging through badly made bug David> reports I couldn't. David> People are assuming that just because _I_ don't want to work on David> the bad bug reports that I think nobody should. It's the exact David> opposite. [...] Thanks for this explanation -- I responded because I was worried you were convincing people that it's a good thing if bug reports get dropped, because the really important ones will float to the top anyway. --J.
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