Re: I'm being ignored

[Jan Ludewig <chaot@isch.de>]

> #34326: memstat: Should add libc5-compat dirs
> 		254 days old
> An year-old bug with a simple fix, yet nobody bothered to even try it.
> 
> #40037: bug: long subject lines under gnome-terminal warp to beggining of line
> 	when using -f
> 		149 days old
> I tested it again a few minutes ago; and it worked. I closed it by hand, since
> it looks like the maintainer neglected to do so.
stop complaining, start working. you can't expect people to work 24h a day
just to satisfy you. most of the developers have a job, they work 12h a day
and then - in the evening or at night - they are developing programs to help
the community. sending bug-reports is a good thing to help them, but if you
can fix the bug (you said you can do that) you should send the bugfix. you are
not a customer who pays for the programs, you are someone using software as you
are _allowed_ to do so.
postings like this make me thinking about switching to openbsd, as on my 
experience shows me, that bsd-users are not this "you-have-to-do-this-as-it-is-
you duty"-like. they've understand the meaning of _community_ much better than
a lot of linux-users (including you).

> Those are just two examples... I bet there are *many* more. Everybody seems to
> focus only on RC bugs and forget about the normal/wishlist ones that have a
> simple fix or even have been fixed a long time ago.
that is why they are called release - _critical_. you allways first make things
working before implementing the features or fixing minor-bugs.

> The QA team is a joke; they too have the same RC-only-mind disease.
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> Every bug, even the wishlist ones, is important. It means the program isn't
> perfect yet.
well, do you know at least _one_ perfect program?

Jan, who is asking "where has all the community-spirit gone?"