Jonathan, My question was not about blame. It was about responsiveness.
The CrossWire wiki <http://crosswire.org/wiki/Help:Contents> directs people to the issues tracker for reporting problems. I'm on the inside of CrossWire. Imagine how outsiders might feel if they get the same lack of response. Had someone in January last year added even the briefest acknowledgement as a comment on the issue, I would not have asked this question the other day. I could accept an issue being assigned low priority. I could accept a request for further details or more persuasive justification. What is less than acceptable is to be totally ignored. We generally don't do that with emails, do we? To make an observation on your other point, it's always been my experience that when I have provided technical feedback to programmers as a software tester, they have almost without exception counted that as valuable input. Indeed, when I retired from NXP Semiconductors in 2009, my colleagues over in the Netherlands presented me with a signed plaque from their whole team, acknowledging how much my technical feedback over many years had helped them to achieve significant improvements for their test systems and software that we used throughout our product line. And when app developers are congratulated for their success, the best ones reply to thank the writer for their kind remarks, and often include a proper acknowledgement to their team of volunteer testers who have helped make the app a success. No programmer worth his salt should see technical feedback as a discouragement, providing it is given in good faith and with a right spirit. It helps of course to be accurate and succinct in identifying the problem. Vagueness is the enemy of good problem reporting. Best regards, David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Windows-Utilities-tp4652865p4652906.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
