It's that time again

[inode0]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:
> 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.

I understand. And another volunteer helps out by rewriting a poorly
written page on the wiki. Nobody replies to him either. Another person
sends out 100 home burned DVDs of Fedora at his own expense to people
requesting help and none of them say thank you.

It is your decision that what you are doing is or isn't worthwhile
based on the reaction or non-reaction of someone else. I see much
value in the contributions you are making as well as in the
contributions other people make regardless of feedback. I'm not saying
you have to change but I do think you'll be less annoyed by lack of
feedback if you (a) don't expect it and (b) know what you are doing is
valuable without feedback.

John