On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Anne Wilson <an...@kde.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21/03/13 15:22, dE . wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com > > <mailto:ser...@serjux.com>> wrote: > > > > On Ter, 2013-03-19 at 22:28 +0530, dE . wrote: > >> This release of KDE (4.10.1), is till date the buggiest I've > >> seen. > >> > > Fedora 18 push it , and so far no bugs found . > > > > > > There's a bug in that pager application, and a Fedora 18 user > > acknowledged it the day after I filed it. They rather report this > > upstream cause this's a KDE problem. I never report Gentoo bugs on > > these KDE issues. > > > > KDE is at best untested. Bugs are right in front of you standing > > on the desktops, and no developer or tester sees it until a bug has > > been filed and a lot users complaint. This time, the pager and > > notification widgets have bugs and both of them exist on the > > default desktop, yet no one noticed. > > > > Major bugs persists for years on end with no solution in sight. > > > It's not enough to report a bug. To get anything done you have to > show exactly how to reproduce it, and this is often neglected. I've > seen bug reports with a "Needs Info" ticket stay like that for years. > The author of the bug gets an email asking for email, but for some > reason never responds. It's disheartening. > > You are often told that many developers are volunteers and lack time, > but the real truth is that they never developed their mind-reading > skills :-) > > Anne > > I always do that, unless I realize the bug is hard to reproduce, and wont affect many people. My attempt to report bugs is to take the bullet before the very end user does.
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