Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 23:47:35 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189583 is a case-study in all that is wrong with the kde4 bug reporting/fixing process. It somewhat uncomfortably shows a number of the obstacles that each kde4 bug must overcome before it can be resolved. (None of which are related to source code editing, compilation or debugging)
For nearly a year the biggest hang-up this bug faced was the petty infighting by a few of the kde devs over whether to classify this missing kde4 feature as a "Wish" or a "Bug" --- please...
Same with those insisting it was a bug. The definition of bug/feature is not very clear, especially if you think that a rewritten from scratch software has to provide all features the previous version had. But the only thing this "bug" shows is that open source is about resources and if devs are not willing to spend their time on code, then you (as in whoever is taking part in a bug report) cannot force them but simply have to wait instead of telling them that they don't get your point. Even if you were right, the latter is not going to increase their motivation or make it happen any faster! So as soon as devs have stated that they won't bother to spend their time on it one should stop discussing and look for other resources, i.e. either find somebody that implements this or do it yourself. Anything else does not help, especially not retaliating after one thinks that one was fouled. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org