Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >> How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
> > I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
> > at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back, and 
> > decided it was not worth it.
> Why don't people just put a patch on a website and supply a link? Then 
> people can take it or leave it. I don't see how it could be made any easier.

Because developers will "leave it".  They don't go hunting for patches;
patches have to be submitted, usually via a system like Bugzilla.  It
will never make it upstream (into packaged versions) and thus will
languish and be forgotten.

A patch just out-there will be of little value.  It very possibly won't
apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
 
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Adam Tauno Williams
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