It's that time again

[Ian Malone]

On 2 August 2013 14:55, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:
>> On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>
>>> While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of
>>> bad manners
>>
>> It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fewer
>> bug reports, which in turn results in worse software..
>
> So why is it demotivating to some and not to others? Rather than try
> to fix every bug every release and politely respond to every bug
> report because none of that is ever going to happen we can think about
> our expectations and the value of our reports and rather than become
> demotivated take satisfaction from knowing we made a valuable
> contribution regardless of whether we know anything about what
> happened to it after we reported it or not.
>
> Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the
> easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations.
>

The Church of Bugzilla?

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