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Re: Validity criteria for bugtrackers and bugtrackers links

Source:  maemo-community on Mar 9 2010 8:35pm   more from feed

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 10:09:36 Andre Klapper wrote: Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 22:19 +0000 schrieb Graham Cobb: On Monday 08 March 2010 21:30:50 Valerio Valerio wrote: What about www.google.com ? seems the same for me :). It isn't the same because there is no way to enter a bug report. However, I would allow it. If someone makes that their bugtracker then they are saying they are not interested in bugs. ... Must be quite frustrating for users that just wanted to help a developer improving his/her application. Users don't report bugs to help developers improve their application (testers, other developers might, but users don't). Users report bugs because they are having a problem and are hoping for a fix (help, a workround, or a software udpate). If the developer does not intend to accept or act on bug reports then Google is a better option than entering a bug which will be ignored, checking it every day, getting more and more frustrated. Bottom line: this process is not about making developers into better people. The only way to do that is incentives (karma, giveaways, free beer, whatever). Graham

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