On Sunday 13 May 2007 02:21:13 Felix Miata wrote: > My guess is that those on the SUSE payroll have a portion of their job > performance officially measured by how many bugs assigned to them remain > open and how long they stay open while assigned to them, which would make > it in their own personal best interest to get rid of them as quickly as > possible by any method possible, regardless of best interest to the distro
LOL! You made my day. What a especulation!! Just wait for boycottnovell.com to start hiring! Nobody works that way. I believe, since opensuse.org was opened, there is much more feedback trough bugzilla. The problem is, you can classify that feedback in various levels, in terms of quality, noise, contribution, etc. Sometime, small bugs you don't have the intention to fix right now because that part will be rewritten, or is a bug in a library, still cause a great amount of noise. You can waste huge important development time playing bugzilla ping-pong with some guy that thinks that he has the _right_ to get his "pixel rotated 90 degrees" bug fixed in no time, and even that, call developers lazy or other insults if the bug is not in the priority list at all. I still think LATER is better than WONTFIX. Still, from the community I have a couple of times received incredible bug reports, with lot of information, logs, fix suggestions, that basically provided enough information to fix some major bug in reduced time. Coincidentally, such reports are written in a nice and kind way, even if they are major bugs and the community member has to invest lot of energy to help the developer to fix the bug. Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
