GDB 11.1 released

Posted Sep 14, 2021 20:45 UTC (Tue) by pebolle (guest, #35204)
In reply to: GDB 11.1 released by rahulsundaram
Parent article: GDB 11.1 released

That's true if the software's author and the submitter of a patch or the reporter of bugs agree about the value of a patch or a report. My impression is that this is the exemption. The rule is: patch NOGOOD, bug WONTFIX. Even more cynical: patch CRICKETS, bug CRICKETS.

The theory seems to be that in free software people should report bugs and submit patches and then free software will grow into some free software nirvana. (Hyperbole alert!) In practice things are complicated. Valid reports are rejected, unsound patches are submitted, sound patches are ignored, etc.

It's free software. It's OK to not file bugs or to not submit patches. In many cases that's actually the best thing to do. Because the tricky part is figuring out when and how to report bugs or send patches.

GDB 11.1 released

Posted Sep 15, 2021 7:24 UTC (Wed) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link] (1 responses)

"It's free software. It's OK to not file bugs or to not submit patches."

Yup. As OK as it is for me to ignore your comments on this, because now I'm convinced that you are only interested in ranting instead of fixing things :)

GDB 11.1 released

Posted Sep 15, 2021 9:57 UTC (Wed) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link]

You're free to ignore my comments.

But it is odd that you justify this by quoting only two sentences of a very short paragraph. Because the quote suggests I said something else than I actually did.