On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeis...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: >> > It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily >> > reproducible bug sits in the queue, without even a comment, for six >> >> > months. For the record, I'm referring to this bug report here: >> This posting of bugreports to mailinglists is often seen as unnecessary, and >> unfair since you're bringing attention to your pet bugs, which >> disadvantages others' pet bugs. Please don't do it, your bug likely ends up >> lower on developers' priority lists, and it sometimes causes bad blood (as >> can be seen in recent history). > > Ok, so if a user reports a bug and gets no answer for weeks, what should he > do? Keep posting to the bug every few weeks, blog about it, private email to > the dev, ask on IRC (which would not be much different than a mailinglist), > post to the forums? If that makes no sense to start not caring about the bug. > Not a good choice, is it?
I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless information. This would only make it far more difficult to manage bug reports. Just being patient seems like the only solution that could work in practice on a large scale. -Todd >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
