I've filed a few bug reports and I can't recall one that ever led to a fix. Most often they just sit there and get closed six months later for lack of activity.

I've filed a few bug reports and I can't recall one that ever led to a fix. Most often they just sit there and get closed six months later for lack of activity. Some times they're fixed upstream. I found a bug in `dash` (Debian's replacement for sh, AFAIK.) It had been reported back in 2011 (IIRC) and the fix will finally be released with the next Debian release which will likely be out some time this year. :-/ I almost filed a bug against Visual Studio Code for a problem with `git` integration. One of the requirements for filing the bug is to install the latest development release. That was enough to discourage me. I'll just stick with `git` on the command line. I filed a bug against one of the Visual Studio Code plugins that has not been fixed. (The extension tries to install a program in a system directory w/out getting root permissions and fails.) If I thought my bug reports were providing any benefit I'd continue to submit them. (And in the case of VS Code didn't have too many hurdles to submit.)