On 20 Apr 2011, at 03:23, Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > The application quality is at the level of FOSS desktop products 10 years > ago, thus I expect the community behavior is like 10 years ago. Thus I think > I should expect replies saying "don't sit there and talk, if you know so much > why don't you help? others are helping!" So here is my respond to that reply: > I believe showing test result is contributing, "complaining with detail" is > contributing and by checking progress once a few years I am doing not bad as > a user, besides I cannot contribute like a developer, it's difficult for me > to write a Hello World.
Helpful bug reports are, indeed, useful. This includes usability issue reports. You are, however, complaining in the wrong place. This is akin to complaining to the GTK team about a list of random GNOME apps, or to the Qt team about a load of random KDE apps - and if you do so then you will probably get a much less polite response than you will get here. This is the mailing list for GNUstep, which is a set of frameworks for developing applications. If you find any bugs that are due to these frameworks, then please post them (ideally with a reduced test case, but with some steps to reproduce if not). If you find bugs that are in applications, then please contact the maintainer(s) of the relevant applications. Of the applications listed, I only know of one (GWorkspace) that is maintained by someone who I know reads this list regularly, and that's because he's ALSO a contributor to GNUstep. Most of the rest, I'd not even heard of. In short, you are not contributing, because telling this list about problems with applications is (from the perspective of the authors of those applications) little different from telling some guys in the street, or posting on your blog. David -- Sent from my PDP-11 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
