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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/28/2013 01:48 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Please don't take this as a criticism, because it's not. One reason 
> that people don't like to ask the maintainers for ANYTHING is the 
> frequency with which requests are met with comments on how busy 
> everyone is, and the occasional reply from someone suggesting that 
> "you have source, why don't you fix that yourself." I also get notices 
> that bugs of long standing have become WONTFIX because no one got 
> around to them in a year.
It isn't a perfect system.  In all my time as a Fedora contributor, I 
have never seen any package maintainer suggest that because you have the 
source you can fix it yourself but I guess that can happen rarely but it 
is more common that some of the bug reports don't get resolved in time.  
Reporting bugs should really be seen as a way to contribute rather than 
just a way to get the fix you want. Most of the package maintainers are 
volunteers and they get asked to do things all the time and often more 
than they can really handle. There are literally hundreds of bug reports 
filed and fixed on a regular basis.  You don't have to take my word for 
it.  Just login #fedorabot in freenode IRC and look at the number of 
updates being pushed out daily.  Majority of them are bug fix updates.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/metrics/?release=F18&_csrf_token=415d9ac0c6576d9dc425bb4f1c682d8723b1f19e

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/metrics/?release=F17&_csrf_token=415d9ac0c6576d9dc425bb4f1c682d8723b1f19e

We do have new contributors signing up on a regular basis but we are 
dealing with a ever growing repository of packages and the demand always 
exceeds supply

Rahul