On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well thankfully the majority of 3rd party users have a better feeling >> about reporting bugs when they find them. >> > > I'm not sure where you got the statistics for that statement, but hey, you > should publicize it. "Mediawiki - more than half of discovered > vulnerabilities are fixed!"
Anthony, that was uncalled for. Nobody has suggested that identified bugs aren't fixed. Nobody has suggested that reported bugs aren't fixed. You are under no legal responsibility to report new bugs you may be aware of, but if you claim to have any interest in the Wikimedia / Wikipedia communities you should have a moral responsibility to do so. Commercial vendors that charge for software may, at their discretion, offer bug bounties - that's normal. Asking open source developers for bounties is not moral or ethical - there's no fee for using the software, why ask for a fee for helping improve it by reporting bugs? We can't make you do it, but you should. If you won't, perhaps you should just drop off the project membership emails and find something else to do - someone sitting here on these lists taunting "I know about bugs that you don't", if persistent, would be a gross violation of etiquette. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
