--- On Tue, 2/7/13, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > > Going personal and accusing others of being biased is > not a way of > getting help.
...In short, I have > a > prejudice against anyone stating anecdotal evidence > concerning issues > with _any_ open-source software if they don't back up that > anecdotal > evidence with a solid bug report. For example, you > stated some > anecdotal evidence about a bug in Cygwin "cat", but when I > requested a > reference for your associated bug report to Cygwin you were > silent. > That told me a lot. ... That tells you only one thing: I don't care about Cygwin enough now to bother filing one more bug among those already filed. My time is more valuable than that. 13 years ago I used it daily and I made my own contributions, and that was then. Half of the time I file bugs on various projects because I have patches to attach/send, and this is not the case with cygwin now, and will not be. I don't intend to file a bug because I don't intend spend time fixing it. You wish. I am not the one asking for help - you are. Launching personal attacks on people trying to help you is just not the way to do it. Nor is exaggeration, nor is 20-line of [lack of] life included in every e-mail. If you want help, ask for it, nicely, and keep it short.
