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bug reports in open source projects

bug reports in open source projects

Posted Dec 3, 2007 10:49 UTC (Mon) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141)
In reply to: Plenty of work ahead by jwb
Parent article: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release

I really cannot speak for x.org, but given the low signal to noise ratio of bug reports in
general I must say I mostly ignore bug reports that are not against Subversion HEAD as well.
Spend some time tracing a bug report only to find out that it's fixed already when I have about
100 things on my ToDo list and only time for about 5?  Not to mention that 99 of those things
are more fun than validating bug reports?  No, I really cannot be bothered to throw away my
unpaid free time like that ...


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