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   weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 00:53:49 JST weilawei

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   Some guy was complaining about people not using his formal bug report thing, and instead sending him some kind of message with a screeenshot or whatever it was.

   My take on that is that's the users telling you exactly how many spoons feedback is worth to them, versus the pain of not having their problem fixed.

   It's clear that his bug report process was too demanding to be useful.

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     weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 00:53:50 JST weilawei

     Lol nope, I don't file bug reports. Not until projects stop demanding I essentially become a contributor first, and fill out an amount of paperwork that would make my government blush, because if that's the level, I'll do what I always do:

     fix it myself, and don't tell the maintainers.

     Bill repeated this.
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     weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 00:53:50 JST weilawei

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     The typical bug report threshold of an open source project feels like if you'd found a bug in your Ford, you'd need to go work for Ford for 20 years to establish that you had indeed found a bug, and then they'd say EWONTFIX anyway.

     So instead I do the right to repair thing. I fix it, the fix works, and I use it. I might complain a bit on my own soapbox, but that's the amount of effort I've got in me.

     Bill repeated this.