On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 12:23:01, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > I agree, the DD's response was not his best contribution ever (I > wonder why he was answering on aptitude bugs at all since he is not > the maintainer). But is it fair to judge developers by one of them[1] > (possibly having a bad day)?
It's one case. As I said, most bug reports and most technical stuff I have is under another name and it's a long story and a goof up that I didn't use the same name for most mailing lists I'm on. I'm not going to go into it here. My experience with a number of FOSS projects has been similar. And you'll also notice that my comments were not out of line at all for fling a bug report. I've always kept a careful tone in such a case because I know some people can take it as criticism, which is why I figure Jordi Hermoso's comment in another post in this thread that I must be doing it wrong as, basically, a "let's shoot the messenger since we don't like the message" attitude. > [1] I'm sure there are developers with a bad attitude (I could even > name a few), but I hope you get my point. Yes, I do. I have to take bug reports for my work. Usually that's a rare case. I had never written a line of code professionally until 2001, when I started my company and started learning a number of languages that didn't even exist a decade earlier, the last time I had looked at writing any code at all. The first program I released to my clients got a total of 6 bug reports (maybe 5, I don't remember) over the next 18 months. I have the luxury of no boss, so I can test my code to pieces before publishing, which I know most people can't do. Still, I do have to take bug reports and I have to smile sweetly as I do because those reports come from clients who are paying me enough per month that I have to keep them a bit more than happy. If someone can't handle bug reports, then they shouldn't be dealing with those who file them. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
