Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-08-13 23:05, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, with my dev hat on (I did that for a living some years ago) I had to solve bugs no matter what. The client could not be left in the mud, because then he would not buy from us again.
Sorry but you can't compare the situation of volunteers in a community-based open source project, and a paid-for developer that get its work assignments by management decree. That just doesn't work. If you want that behavior "as a customer", you have to pay.
As matter of fact, I do.
I call it responsibility and being proud of a job well done.
A full-paid developer has 8+ hours a day to work on problems of his/her code. An unpaid volunteers doesn't have the time. Thus, he has to prioritize and will do the things first that are most important to his vision for the project. Bugs in not-current development tiers are most often not among those highly prioritized issues. Please note, lynn's gross misunderstanding notwithtaken, that I don't say that devs don't care for bugs or are not interested in improving their projects. I say that bugs in older non-current versions that are not demonstrated to be there in current development lines are NOT AS IMPORTANT. The result of more important issues pressing is -- they get to be postponed for quite some time. One doesn't know in advance how much "quite some time" is, but as The Master tells @d infinity=255 { $\infty$ (approximately) } -- DEK, in weave.web, line 4659 To assume different is a blue-eyed misconception in the social dynamic any developer works in, be it paid-for or in a community. (Please note, that has nothing to do with Open Source Software; it's an economical issue -- where "economical" is not about money, but about gains for effort.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org