The State of the Art is Terrible

Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by nodata on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:43AM (#3069566)

The alternative used to be: report a bug. Put it in bugzilla.

I've reported thousands of bugs. Maybe 30-50% of them used to be fixed. Nowadays I'd be pushing it to say 5%.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by cpeterso on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:24AM (#3069658)

But do you still report bugs?

I've gone to report GNOME or Ubuntu bugs, only to find that the problem already has a bug report from 5 years ago. The bugs are still open and unfixed, with a poor sap adding a "me too" comment every few months.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by bartwe on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:46AM (#3069702)

There is a YC startup in there somewhere :) Kickstarter for bugfix contributions.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by nodata on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @04:23AM (#3069916)

I still report bugs, but nowhere near as many.

Before there was a feeling of progress: report a bug, see it fixed. Now it's report a bug and silence.

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