On 9/13/2022 2:02 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:42:12PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > >Software projects today, IIUC, are communities. The "volunteers" should do > >what the community > >wants, not necessarily what you or I want. Do you think the free/oss > >software community wants > >volunteers who ignore bugs or refuse to fix bugs in free/oss software? If > >they do ignore a > >bug or refuse to fix a bug with a known fix, don't they owe an explanation > >to the community? > >If not, why not? > > You seem to have an ax to grind.
So do you, obviously. Someone said something that raised that question in my mind, but you deleted that part from this message, which proves you are the one who has an ax to grind by not answering the question that has been raised by the comments you and another person has been making. > Either get to the point and discuss > what's bothering you directly or stop with the pointless rhetorical > questions. > It bothers me that there are supposed advocates of free/oss software like Debian who think that it is good for free/oss software if the persons who volunteer to develop and maintain free software like Debian can ignore bugs reported to them and refuse to fix them. If you think that is good for free/oss software, I disagree with you. Fortunately, you are just one person, and I doubt the Debian community or any other free software community wants the persons who develop and maintain the software to ignore and/or refuse to fix the bugs reported to them. Best regards, Chuck
