Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
>  The point being made is that users did their job (bug reporting),
>  potential GNOME developers did their job (implementation).
>
>  The ones that didn't do their job where official GNOME developers
>  (provide feedback). Of course it cannot be assumed that all the bug
>  reports are properly followed, but at least the important ones should.
>
>  Without votes it's hard to see important bugs being ignored.

I don't want to be rude and I'm not a core GNOME developer but...

Important bugs are crashers with stack traces attached. Next on the
list are pet peeves of core developers. As developers are free to work
on any feature they care about (or are paid to work on), it's very
likely that what seems important to you is minor to someone else. If
you want to help, either help core developers by triaging bugs (this
involves providing feedback for enhancement requests like the one
above) or try to come up with patches (even if they don't work they
are a great way to get valuable feedback from core devs).

Whining and saying "you didn't fix my toy, I'm going to play somewhere
else" (sorry but that's the king of attitude this thread leads to) is
not going to get us anywhere -- it's likely that 100 users will vote
100 different bugs as "top priority." If you let them vote for
multiple bugs, well, I'd vote for everything as no bug should be left
unaddressed.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution