On 23 April 2010 22:23, Paweł Sikora <pl...@agmk.net> wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 22:05:56 HyperQuantum wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, HyperQuantum <hyperquan...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez >> > >> > <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC? >> > >> > The lack of time, for the most part. >> >> I submitted a feature request once. It's now four years old, still >> open, and the last message it received was two years ago. (PR26061) > > i'm trying to contribute to gcc/glibc via testing on my codebase > and... i have abandoned/rejected long standing PRs too :( > > e.g: > http://gcc.gnu.org/PR20128 > http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28811 > http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28854 > http://gcc.gnu.org/PR36568 vs. http://sourceware.org/PR6693 > > people don't like wait for a years for bug classification/fixing ;)
You can find this in every software project that has an userbase larger than the developer base, free-software or proprietary. You can find this in every large and mature free-software project. In the proprietary world there is little you can do. In the free-software world, you can actually help to fix it. To alleviate this problem (it will never go away), we need more contributors. Wanna help? In any case, I think coming from you it is a bit hurtful because I have personally fixed many of your bugs and I haven't seen a single beer yet! Where is my beer? Manuel.
