Re:Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bo...
by DocTomoe on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:20AM
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I have stopped writing bug reports altogether.
I believe to write good bug reports, and put serious effort in it to provide test cases, describe the environment the bug thrives in, make assumptions on what may be wrong, etc. A good bug report takes half an hour of my time, easily. Only to then be ignored for 15+ years and eventually silently closed because "we don't use that architecture anymore". Looking at you, KDE, and Atlassian (= the problem exists regardless on the monetarization format).
I believe to write good bug reports, and put serious effort in it to provide test cases, describe the environment the bug thrives in, make assumptions on what may be wrong, etc. A good bug report takes half an hour of my time, easily. Only to then be ignored for 15+ years and eventually silently closed because "we don't use that architecture anymore". Looking at you, KDE, and Atlassian (= the problem exists regardless on the monetarization format).
It's just no longer worth my time.