On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:19 PM, nishandh M <[email protected]> wrote:
> in the terminal. That is the point. That is exactly the point. Why shud we
> manually do that every time? It could have been done in a single click,
> accepting the risks whether its legal or security issue.
Not sure whether you're a software developer or not, but what you
described is exactly the process of development.
1) Someone or other identifies an issue or a feature which is missing, and
2) asks the developer to add it.
3) If the development team or management feels this issue is important
to fix, or this feature is a "killer", then it will be added to a
specific milestone.
Otherwise it will be dropped or it will languish in bug tracker hell.
4) Developers fix and/or code issues/features, either as a patch or
directly into version control
5) management releases code or software product when the milestone date arrives.
This process happens in all kinds of software development, be it
proprietary or FLOSS. It happens for (small, very small, very very
small, very very very small, big, large) X (bugs, features). (Note:
the X is a Cartesian product).
In the FLOSS world, step (2) can usually be divided into sub steps:
2a) User rants on mailing list, along with several peripheral issues,
rants, etc.
2b) User is asked either to contribute or fuck off
2c) Someone tells user to file a bug
2d) User repeats rant, and additionally rants about being a luser and
therefore not knowing anything other than sending rant-emails.
2e) User or someone else, actually files a bug. Note, this step might
not happen at all.
2f) If user has time or cares about bug, he will file it at the bug tracker
I think, so far all steps upto 2d have occurred. Well, maybe not, but
Im not following that closely.
IMHO, you may stop sending emails like "oh im a luser so ..." and "oh
why linux sucks for desktop ..." and "oh i found bug... OMG BBQ", and
directly go to step 2e. Or if you are a developer, go to step 4.
Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian
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