On Monday 16 April 2007 06:34, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > <aside>The number of people who file bugs and then vanish or just don't > > > respond to further inquiries is pretty significant. I've even seen > > > people submit *patches* along with reports, but never surface either > > > in bugzilla or mail lists again. Both weird and frustrating.</aside> > > > > Actually, that last case doesn't surprise me. If someone submits a > > working patch, it means they personally no longer have the problem. > > > > >From their point of view, it's finished. > > And that they completely do not understand Open Source. It isn't as > straight forward as submitting "a patch that worked for me". Developers > will frequently have questions about the patch, the patch will have > been created incorrectly (suprisingly frequent), etc... You'd think > someone who took the time to create a patch would be willing to respond > to a few e-mails in order to get it upstream.
Adam, man that created patch or workaround and than never appears on bugzilla did good job anyway. They may have no time, will, interest, knowledge or even permission to dicuss further, but at least shared their experience. When you mentioned incorrectly created patches, that might be all they can do. Reading program source is not demandfull like writing the code. With trial and error they found what works, but if someone want to discuss other options they can't help him and for many reasons they don't want to state that. How many fixed the problem and never published the fix? They use free OS, but don't give back anything, keeping their knowledge for another opportunity to cash on it. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
