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Oh my. "This individual doing open source software FOR FREE is not fixing bugs that I provide to him to fix FOR ME AND MY NEEDS is not fixing them to MY SCHEDU

by howeyc 14y ago

Oh my. "This individual doing open source software FOR FREE is not fixing bugs that I provide to him to fix FOR ME AND MY NEEDS is not fixing them to MY SCHEDULE AND SATISFACTION. THE NERVE." Indeed. I feel for you.

packetslave 14y ago
That's a lovely strawman you're beating on. If you actually read the post, jwz isn't complaining that bugs aren't being fixed on "[HIS] SCHEDULE AND SATISFACTION. THE NERVE." He doesn't say anything at all about bugs not being fixed. His complaint is that his bug reports are being completely ignored, and/or developers providing no way to even REPORT bugs. I imagine he would be happy (well, HAPPIER, it is jwz) if a project owner said/posted "this is a one-man show. I'm really busy and don't have any time at all to work on it right now. Here's a bugzilla/github issues/whatever where you can report bugs and at least see if it's a known issue"
- vacri 14y ago
  One of the bug reports he's bitching about - the first one he mentions - is only 3 weeks old.
  - packetslave 14y ago
    I'm pretty sure that's his point: that it has become acceptable to completely ignore a bug report for 3 weeks with no indication that it will EVER be looked at.
    - vacri 14y ago
      I've worked as a dedicated software tester for a team of programmers and I've lodged bugs for them about the product that they're currently working on, that haven't had anything done to them in the system for that long. Sometimes there is other shit happening and that subsystem is on the backburner while it's sorted out. Or perhaps the coder responsible for that subsystem has been on holiday and is working through a backlog. Or perhaps their 'day job' has blown up on them and they haven't had quality time to look over things. I think jwz is just being precious here.
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Oh my. "This individual doing open source software FOR FREE is not fixing bugs that I provide to him to fix FOR ME AND MY NEEDS is not fixing them to MY SCHEDU

by howeyc 14y ago

packetslave 14y ago
That's a lovely strawman you're beating on. If you actually read the post, jwz isn't complaining that bugs aren't being fixed on "[HIS] SCHEDULE AND SATISFACTION. THE NERVE." He doesn't say anything at all about bugs not being fixed. His complaint is that his bug reports are being completely ignored, and/or developers providing no way to even REPORT bugs. I imagine he would be happy (well, HAPPIER, it is jwz) if a project owner said/posted "this is a one-man show. I'm really busy and don't have any time at all to work on it right now. Here's a bugzilla/github issues/whatever where you can report bugs and at least see if it's a known issue"
- vacri 14y ago
  One of the bug reports he's bitching about - the first one he mentions - is only 3 weeks old.
  - packetslave 14y ago
    I'm pretty sure that's his point: that it has become acceptable to completely ignore a bug report for 3 weeks with no indication that it will EVER be looked at.
    - vacri 14y ago
      I've worked as a dedicated software tester for a team of programmers and I've lodged bugs for them about the product that they're currently working on, that haven't had anything done to them in the system for that long. Sometimes there is other shit happening and that subsystem is on the backburner while it's sorted out. Or perhaps the coder responsible for that subsystem has been on holiday and is working through a backlog. Or perhaps their 'day job' has blown up on them and they haven't had quality time to look over things. I think jwz is just being precious here.
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