It's that time again

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Fri Aug 2 17:17:04 UTC 2013


On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: 

> Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the
> easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations.

It's free software, and therefore I'm not expecting that people find the
time to fix my bug. In 99% of all cases, the bug is reported elsewhere
and I fix it, recompile or work around it.

The thing is: I take my time to elaborate and report the bug (and
occasionally even have the solution), but nobody answers - ever. 
Would be enough with e.g. an automatically generated message
when one of the developers reads my bugreport, just to know that it
was worth the effort. Instead you are telling me that's me who has to
change.

So what's in it for me? Serving the community and the developement of
free software? Fedora? How should I know, when there's not a single
reaction? Because you are telling me that all reports are read, but
in most cases there is not the time to even have a short (and maybe automatic)
answer?

It's just right there my motivation drops.



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