I will fill your bugreports for $1.99 per bug :-) 2012/10/19 Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>: > > [Kelly Clowers] >> But I basically never report bugs. I have used Sid for years, and in >> fact I often don't notice bugs in my personal workflow (maybe if I >> can think of myself as a user? I notice end-user-impacting bugs in >> other areas). If someone comes over and sees me working the might >> say, "wow that is an annoying bug" and I say "what bug? Oh that. I >> didn't notice, I just worked around it." Even with bugs I do notice, >> I usually just ignore and work around until it is fixed. > > Don't feel bad about that. Reporting a bug is a _burden_, especially > if you care enough to produce a high-quality report. Even if the > actual reporting part is pretty easy, you have to gather a lot of > information: is it reproduceable and if so, how? How sure am I that it > isn't user error or local configuration? How sure am I that it hasn't > already been fixed by a newer upload? Is there anything strange in my > environment that I am forgetting to mention, that would make the bug > hard for anyone else to reproduce? And of course that's not even > counting the time investment of working with the maintainer after the > initial report. > > I don't fault anyone for deciding that the return on investment for > producing a high-quality bug report is higher than for just working > around it. I often do the same. We of course appreciate when users > are willing to contribute a good bug report, but we don't require or > expect everybody to do it. Mostly we produce Debian so you can _use_ > it, not so you can spend your time helping us make it better. > > Peter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121019164112.gf4...@p12n.org >
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