> Your behaviour on this mailing list, and on Bugzilla, has been > consistently rude, inconsiderate, and plain abusive of the patience > and effort that volunteers put in the platform you're consuming.
You have absolutely no respect for the work of other volunteers to the gtk+ project or for people whose opinions aren't aligned with you. You put a high value on your own disruptive work, and a value of zero on anyone else. So, yeah, I don't like you. And you probably don't like me. Morten On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 13:19, Morten Welinder <mort...@gnome.org> wrote: >>> Considering that you usually stop short of the first step I have to >>> ask you: what kind of "busywork" have you ever experienced? >> >> Here's a sample: >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694627#c7 >> >> Yes, that was you. What did you really gain from asking that >> question, other than verifying that I read my email? > > I gained the fact that you read your email and if you're still > experiencing the issue, or if it was accidentally fixed in the ~4 > years between your original report and me going through the open bugs > of gobject-introspection. That's why it was marked as NEEDINFO. > > As soon as you replied, the bug was reinstated as NEW and will be > migrated to the gobject-introspection repository on gitlab.gnome.org. > >> The more typical sample -- not recently practiced by gtk+ -- is mass >> moving of bugs into NEEDINFO with a note saying something like >> "This bug was reported for version x.y. Please test if it still applies. If >> we get no response, this bug will be closed in 30 days." > > Which is what Matthias has said we're going to do in the email you > replied to — and it's also implied in the NEEDINFO state as it's used > by GNOME projects. > >> The reason I call that busywork is that you can actually do as asked >> only to repeat the whole thing in a year when no-one has looked at >> in the meantime. And repeat it a year after that. And multiply all that >> by the number of open bugs you have. > > Oh, I'm sorry you're *so* inconvenienced by volunteers trying to get > the bug count under control, and cannot replicate every single set up > from 5 years ago. > >> Quite frankly, the rational response to such periodic requests is to >> simply answer "the bug is still there" without going through the work >> of checking. > > So, you're basically just making shit up? > > That's *really* great to know, because now I won't feel compelled at > all to act on bug reports coming from you. > > Next time, either don't bother, or just be a decent human being, and > answer "I don't know". > >> That's rational for the bug reporter because it preserves >> the investment of time that was put into reporting the bug without >> spending more maintaining an large portfolio of open bugs. > > That's the "rational" thing to do if you're just abusing the ecosystem > you're taking advantage of. > > Again, that's a great thing to know. > >>> Of course it is, that's why we generally don't do that — except, >>> maybe, for rude bug reporters. >> >> You really don't like to be called out, do you? (And, yes, I know I am >> occasionally and deliberately rude. The email you responded to was >> not rude; it's just that you don't take criticism well, if at all.) > > Your behaviour on this mailing list, and on Bugzilla, has been > consistently rude, inconsiderate, and plain abusive of the patience > and effort that volunteers put in the platform you're consuming. > > You've been called out before, multiple times, about this. > > Of course, you can now spin it the way you want it, and say it's me > that doesn't like being called out. I'll just remember it for the next > time you open a bug, explaining what *I* have to do, without even > bothering to attach a patch. Or reply "this bug still exists" without > testing it, because you're too busy with your own stuff. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. > >> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 4 February 2018 at 20:52, Morten Welinder <mort...@gnome.org> wrote: >>>> As a general principle, you should only ask bug reporters to do work if you >>>> intend to do something with the answer. Or, with other words, it really is >>>> not nice to keep asking "is that bug still there?" until they get tired of >>>> the >>>> busywork and leave in disgust. >>> >>> The busywork meaning "attaching a patch and iterating over it"? >>> Considering that you usually stop short of the first step I have to >>> ask you: what kind of "busywork" have you ever experienced? >>> >>> Of course if we get a positive response that the bug is still there >>> we're going to migrate it and keep track of it. >>> >>>> With that in mind, I believe it is much nicer to just leave the old bugs >>>> there. >>> >>> The old bugs will be left there, but closed, so we don't need to check >>> two bug lists, and split the maintenance resources even more. >>> >>>> We never got around to solving the reporter's problem, but at least we did >>>> not add to the pain by asking them to do work and report back, only to >>>> ignore the result of that. Doing that is quite rude. >>> >>> Of course it is, that's why we generally don't do that — except, >>> maybe, for rude bug reporters. >>> >>> Ciao, >>> Emmanuele. > > > > -- > https://www.bassi.io > [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list