On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 01:17 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
This is a false distinction - the world is not divided into "programmers" and "not programmers". There are many ways those not versed in code can help - in ways that cause bugs to get closed faster, and then someone comes around to 'your' bug sooner. Yep, I beta tested, reported problems, and when I disagreed with the
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Adam Tauno WIlliams
wrote: direction of openSUSE, I was basically told to go away by a small minority because I didn't agree with their "vision".
Okay, again as someone who has worked with/in Open Source projects - a project has to choose a vision / goals / etc... and then it has to pursue them. Some people won't agree with those choices. The video at <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645&q=google +tech+talks+subversion> does a very good job of covering this, I recommend it to lots of people.
As a bug keeper for an Open Source project I can tell you that they almost certainly have bugs of their own and are very much aware of the looming mountain that is Bugzilla. The attitude of my-bugs-don't-get-fixed-so-I'm-going-home is not helpful, to yourself or anyone else. People are concerned about what affects them directly. It's a fact of life.
Fortunately for us all (and civilization) this is not true of a very large number of people.
And "more than 70 bugs"??! Hah, I'd love to be him! You'll find the same, and much worse, in any in-house/proprietary bug tracking system. Bugs are many, workers are few. So you'd assign them to who? Remeber that bugs are not exclusively available to the person to whom they are assigned. Resources are constrained - that is why there is a thing called an "economy". :) Then maybe it's time to re-evaluate what the project is and where it is going. Projects that get too big don't die, they get pushed away by the next big thing. That's how uBuntu has become big. SuSE used to be the distro everyone watched. Now it's second to uBuntu. What happens when the next big thing comes along and openSUSE is pushed even further out?
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