On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 9:40 am, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> We keep the tracker for the really hard ones

NB: Most of the ones you (addressing William here) are filing at the 
moment _are_ hard ones, so don't start thinking they aren't worth 
dealing with.  The exceptions, if there are exceptions, are only the 
odd little ones that get fixed in the course of talking about them.

I say this just because I want to stress that this current stream of 
bug reports is excellent work, the sort that it's really hard to get 
with an open-source project because so few people feel they have an 
incentive to actually identify and describe bugs rather than simply 
ignoring them or avoiding the software that contains them.   (In a 
"proper" company, of course, you have testers paid to do that.)  For 
most projects, the open-source slogan of "many eyes making all bugs 
shallow" (or whatever it is) is just a myth -- it's only true where 
your target audience of users also has a significant capability to 
fix bugs in the code, which is one reason why open-source developer 
tools find it easy to succeed and open-source desktop software finds 
it hard.


Chris



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