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I believe when one wants to use a software the incentives are not to spend time on testing or improving it but to save time on the original task at hand. Gettin
by mihaaly 6y ago
I believe when one wants to use a software the incentives are not to spend time on testing or improving it but to save time on the original task at hand. Getting help from the software and not helping the software, not participating in its interest group society. For the purpose of the software - helping and carrying out tasks - lengthy digging in discussions for essential information is counter efficient.
- jka 6y agoYep - it's completely fine to simply use software and not expect or contribute anything more to it; and in that sense it's good to have multiple options for any given task. But given the ability and opportunity to provide feedback directly to a software project, they'll generally appreciate it and it'll lead to better outcomes for everyone, even if it takes a bit more time up-front.
- rkangel 6y agoI've concluded that for me the price that I should pay for good open source software is good bug reports. If I'm not contributing at the very least help the contributors make their project better. This can sometimes take a little time to get a reasonably minimal set of steps to repeat and appropriate screenshots. Admittedly this is easier as I'm a software engineer so I have decent intuition as to what is needed so they don't have to come back to me.
- fireattack 6y agoI agree with you in general, but in this very case, since there is already a wiki page for it, I guess the issue is well-known.