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"I'm going to have to strip off the extraneous bits until I'm staring the problem in the face. Why should I spend my time doing that, when you—the person asking
by sverhagen 9y ago
"I'm going to have to strip off the extraneous bits until I'm staring the problem in the face. Why should I spend my time doing that, when you—the person asking for help—could be?"
Oh, the dozens and dozens of times I solved my own problem while making it reproducible, before actually filing the report!
- npsimons 9y agoMuch like Rubber Ducking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
- nerdponx 9y agoThis, or the report template itself suggests troubleshooting steps that I hadn't considered, and solved my problem that way.
- Doxin 9y agoOn the other hand, If I as a user run into some trivial bug and go "hey feature XYZ is obviously broken" I get rather annoyed at repo maintainers who think I am then somehow required to debug the problem for them.