Re: How long should it take to fix a obvious memory leak?

[Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> This is a fruitless discussion.
>
> Let me explain a little what people are trying to communicate to you.
> You're looking at this in a very rigid manner.
>
> In an open source community, your credentials matter.  When your positive,
> we're positive, if you're sour, well you're going to get a likewise
> reaction.  If you're ultimate goal is to get the bug fixed then you' need to
> social engineer to do it.  Sometimes that just means that you might have to
> take over maintainership.  That's how a lot of people got to become
> maintainers or core developers because the took something that annoyed them
> and fixed it.  "Open" in open source means that you have the ability to
> address problem directly rather than waiting on others.

This is nice answer.
But people didn't answer the OP question honestly.
They just try to prove that I was rude and try to make excuses of the OP bug.

> Barring that, you'll have to be polite and observe the social niceties.
> This should not be particularly new to you.  We do this every day not in
> just in a open source project but in our daily lives.  All you're doing
> right now is antagonizing people here and you're no closer to fixing your
> bug, but instead you just have people mad at you.  It's a fruitless
> discussion.

Sounds like your society is not big enough to have some opposites.