I was trying to offer the hopeful light that there are good tickets to be had, 
usually more than bad ones; that you should go for being the maintainer.

Russell Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

>Most people don't file tickets at all, they just think "huh, it doesn't
>work" and move on. For those who do file bug reports, sometimes there's
>time to look into the logs and what the problems are, sometimes there
>isn't. Sure, more detail is better and will get things fixed quicker,
>but do you think it's a good idea to discourage people from reporting
>problems?
>
>Russell
>________________________________________
>From: [email protected]
>[[email protected]] on behalf of Jeremy
>Lavergne [[email protected]]
>Sent: 23 March 2012 02:32
>To: Craig Treleaven
>Cc: James Linder; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: MythTV port?
>
>> I'm going to *attempt* to be a maintainer--I'm very worried that I'm
>biting off far more than I can chew.
>
>The nice thing is most people will tell you what is wrong and maybe how
>to fix it, rather than just spewing tickets that something somewhere
>broke. Most people. :-)

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