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On 09/24/2013 06:17 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:524166C8.8090900@gmail.com" type="cite">I
comprehend very well what I'm proposing</blockquote>
Frankly, I don't think you do.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:524166C8.8090900@gmail.com" type="cite"> (
given I've been on the same side of the fence that reporters are
for the last 5 years or more )</blockquote>
Oh, so now we're trotting out credentials to make our case? How
about this, then... I've been using and programming computers since
1981, when my family bought our shiny, new Apple ][+ (We even
splurged for the 16K expansion card, giving us a whopping 60KB of
RAM! As I recall, our computer cost around $2,000, which back then
was a lot of money!). I've been the head maintainer or contributor
to more FOSS projects than I can recall off the top of my head. I
have a bachelor's degree from MIT, where I worked on Project Athena
in just about every role in the software lifecycle, as well as
spending six years working for the user help-desk as both a
volunteer and paid user consultant (which means, frankly, that I
have a hell of a lot more experience than you at understanding how
novice users think and what they will and won't put up with). I
helped write Kerberos, which means that code I wrote is running on
pretty much every Linux, Mac, or Windows computer in the world. I've
contributed to the Mozilla core. I was using Fedora long before it
was Fedora. I was one of the original members of the Red Hat Beta
Team, so long ago that most people on this list have probably never
heard of it, and I have the "We kill bugs dead" T-shirt to prove it.
I was, at one point, such a prolific submitter of bugs into RHBZ
that for quite a while I had submitted far more bugs than anyone
else (as of today I've reported 1,236 bugs to RHBZ).<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:524166C8.8090900@gmail.com" type="cite"> So I
think that you need to start thinking and speculating and asking
yourself where will we be in 5 - 10 years time yes there are
people that are responsive in bugzilla and do look at it from time
to time but quite frankly the majority ignores it.
<br>
</blockquote>
Do you have hard data to support that assertion, or just anecdotal
stories about bugs you've filed that have been ignored?<br>
<br>
In my experience, the majority of bugs that I've filed have received
attention from package maintainers.<br>
<br>
jik<br>
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