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"I found a bug and you won't consider it unless I phrase it as example code? Screw you, I won't report it then!" This seems like a reasonable thing to think an
by ucarion 9y ago
"I found a bug and you won't consider it unless I phrase it as example code? Screw you, I won't report it then!"
This seems like a reasonable thing to think and say.
A better alternative to the article's suggestion is to state somewhere that it is very likely your issue won't be considered unless it takes the form of a PR. The maintainers, if they don't want to deal with the bug, will say "could you make a PR with a failing test case? Otherwise I don't have the time to work on this".
That way, those who really want the bug fixed have to put in work, but those who just noticed a problem and are kind enough to let the maintainers know can do so easily. Why discourage bug-reporting?
- robotresearcher 9y agoI think I covered that in 'recommend a different approach in a civil tone if you must'. It's the 'screw you' that put my back up.
- Retra 9y agoTo be fair, that 'screw you' was offered behind a predicate.
- chc 9y agoThat doesn't help much, seeing as the predicate is essentially "… if you don't want to do free debugging work for me as well as the free development work you're already doing."
- Retra 9y agoNobody said you have to actually fix the errors, only allow them to be reported. (Which GitHub makes pretty effortless, as I understand it.) At least then someone might be able to volunteer to fix it for them, especially if it is a serious or common problem.
- dragonwriter 9y agoPerhaps most importantly, having the issue there let's some other interested user see it and put the effort in to repro the bug and do the test case or demonstrative example.