On Friday 03 April 2009 11:27:51 am PGNet wrote:
isn't one of the points arising in this thread the issue that if there ARE judged to be "gazillions of other. more important, priority problems to fix" that at the very least it might be nice for a user to know, via a comment in said submitted bug, that that determination has been made? ideally, perhaps even including the user in that determination discussion?
You can imagine how hot is on a developers side of the wire. To give comments takes time from priorities and I'm sure that guys paid for coding are hard pressured to solve priorities, ie. Novell's customers problems, in a timely manner. That is what bring lunch on a table and roof over the head. When that is done they can go and solve all other issues. It is just the fact that proprietary only companies have no opensource related need for man*hours and they compete in the same market place. That creates pressure on those that have opensource component and it will not change until it is established some kind of social responsibility trough obligation to provide certain amount of man*hours for public service, like broadcasting companies already have. That solution is not very likely to happen any soon, as unlike broadcast companies that can't broadcast somewhere else in the world, software can be developed anywhere, and adding rules will push business out of regulated zone. The only solution right now is to have more people from community involved in such activity as friendly bug handling. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org