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The only people to be upset at are the people that find a bug, have the capacity to fix it, but don't, and complain instead. Other than that, please stop yelli

by dylanz 17y ago

The only people to be upset at are the people that find a bug, have the capacity to fix it, but don't, and complain instead. Other than that, please stop yelling at me ;) Welcome to OSS. In the time you took to write that rant, you could have probably resolved a bug or three. Personally, the framework usually works fine for me. When it doesn't, and I find a bug, I'll fix it. Done. That's a nice and natural workflow of OSS. When I'm not working, I'm spending time with my children and my family. I find a lot more happiness in that than I would fixing other peoples bugs. I recommend finding happiness in the environment you're working with, and not chastising an OSS community because there are easily fixable open bugs in the system. Maybe it's the wine talking, but man, that was a negative read to me. Back to dessert, and maybe I'll run into a bug and fix it later (on my free time even!). On a side note, I also love nerding ou on those bug smashing parties. It's social, fun, and not required :)

0x44 17y ago
If his rant encourages just three people to each fix a bug of the same complexity as those he could have resolved instead of writing said rant, the project breaks even. If those three people continue to submit patches, the project comes out ahead.
ryanbigg 17y ago
I enjoy your metric of "time to write post" vs "fixing bugs" and feel that it is accurate. In fact, I was still hyped up about the post afterward that I made a few patches myself (thereby proving your "time to write post" vs "fixing bugs" metric just about correct) and got noticed by somebody on core willing now to give me write-access to the tickets so I can do the janitorial work necessary. If you have children and family, of course they should come before any silly little open source project ;). Absolutely. If I had a wife (or girlfriend, for that matter) and kids I would be spending time with them too. But for now, I devote my effort into coding and writing. My post is more directed at those magnificently-talented people (and perhaps, those who are not as much) to, instead of sitting there and wondering about "What can I do?" or whining about "When is it coming?" to actually do something about it. A great example of this would be a guy named Roland Moriz who has been going through lighthouse and picking out tickets that should be marked as invalid or completed. This is a simple process of just reading a ticket and determining its status. If a thousand people went into the lighthouse and picked out one ticket, just one ticket, and "evaluated" it, then we would be long on our way to having no tickets left to evaluate. I sincerely hope you enjoyed your wine and dessert and I appreciate your time spent to write that comment, all feedback is welcomed.

by dylanz 17y ago

0x44 17y ago

If his rant encourages just three people to each fix a bug of the same complexity as those he could have resolved instead of writing said rant, the project breaks even. If those three people continue to submit patches, the project comes out ahead.

ryanbigg 17y ago

I enjoy your metric of "time to write post" vs "fixing bugs" and feel that it is accurate. In fact, I was still hyped up about the post afterward that I made a few patches myself (thereby proving your "time to write post" vs "fixing bugs" metric just about correct) and got noticed by somebody on core willing now to give me write-access to the tickets so I can do the janitorial work necessary. If you have children and family, of course they should come before any silly little open source project ;). Absolutely. If I had a wife (or girlfriend, for that matter) and kids I would be spending time with them too. But for now, I devote my effort into coding and writing. My post is more directed at those magnificently-talented people (and perhaps, those who are not as much) to, instead of sitting there and wondering about "What can I do?" or whining about "When is it coming?" to actually do something about it. A great example of this would be a guy named Roland Moriz who has been going through lighthouse and picking out tickets that should be marked as invalid or completed. This is a simple process of just reading a ticket and determining its status. If a thousand people went into the lighthouse and picked out one ticket, just one ticket, and "evaluated" it, then we would be long on our way to having no tickets left to evaluate. I sincerely hope you enjoyed your wine and dessert and I appreciate your time spent to write that comment, all feedback is welcomed.