Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video...
by claudeganon on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:01PM
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Yeah, I guess it’s just an entirely different kind of engagement.
I mostly use GitHub to find off the shelf solutions to whatever problem I’m having or to avoid doing the work myself. If I run into any problems I have with something from there, I either try and fix it by tweaking the repository, using another, or just building the thing myself. I think the last time I reported an issue on an external repository was because of something I was made to use at work.
At times I imagine there could be some kind of "I know how to report bugs"-certification that people could somehow earn. Projects could then use this as a barrier to prevent getting too many useless issue reports.
The problem really goes both ways - as a software dev I'm disincentivized to report detailed bugs to projects, because there's a high risk it will get drowned out in the noise.
Some projects have quite specific templates for reporting issues. This helps a bit, but you still need someone to go in and remove issues that don't match the template, and few people want to volunteer for that work.