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MPs are supposed to serve all their consistuents, though. Open source maintainers' duty to their users is more controversial; but I think most people would agre

MPs are supposed to serve all their consistuents, though. Open source maintainers' duty to their users is more controversial; but I think most people would agree it's not as strong as an MP's. > then, well, you must be self serving, and feel that these bugs are not genuine or important. It's harder to keep track of bugs that aren't on a bugtracker (hence the name) if you don't have time to fix them right now. I regularly fix easy bugs submitted to me on IRC, but if I can't do it right now, then I require the user to open an issue on my bugtracker or else I'll forget it and fix one of the other 216 bugs on my bugtracker instead.

celticmusic 7y ago
This is kind of like the idea that the poor person who gave their last $10 is doing more than the rich person giving $10k/month sustainably. it's ethics vs being _effective_ in the practical reality we live in.
boublepop 7y ago
> MPs are supposed to serve all their consistuents, though Yes, and that responsibility predates computers. So let’s not pretend that they only became capable of doing this effectively After Twitter was developed, just because you and others don’t want to bother with sending a letter.