[Kde-games-devel] Does Ksirk start for you?

[Eugene Trounev]

Well, that's why after seeing that no one has taken any notice of the problem 
I wrote here :) (Not to the bug tracker, cos it hates me :P )

On Friday 05 December 2008 04:09:21 Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> On Friday 05 of December 2008 05:42:24 Eugene Trounev wrote:
> > Yeah, I didn't report. As a matter of fact I do never report bugs, but
> > there are a three reasons for that...
> > first - I despise the bug tracking system, which imho was designed by the
> > demons of hell with a sole purpose of tutoring people...
> > second - I would like to hope there are those who do the testing, and I
> > wouldn't want to steal their *jobs*
> > third - I hate to be a bother, as I think the devs know their problems,
> > and if something is broken today, it will certainly be fixed tomorrow :)
> >
> > (and also secretly I always suspect that the problem is purely my, as my
> > system is usually screwed up badly :P )
>
> From above four problems, only first makes some sence (for you as a user)
> :)
>
> - in KDE there's no QA team apart from its users. So actually it is better
> to say that when you don't report bugs, you don't steal *jobs*, you steal
> *fixes*. Of course no one will tell you that it is "bad" not to report bugs
> - it's your choice :)
>
> - I notice that this is common misconseption that bug reports "bother"
> developers. No! They help them! Developer never writes ideal code and he
> knows it. He also knows that most of the time he just can't find *all*
> errors. This is simply obvious. So bug reports are help, not something that
> bothers. If bug bothers developer, then most probably he will be bothered
> by development of the app as a whole. And perhaps it would be better for
> him to pass maintainership to some more interested person.
>
> - If you think that problem is yours and belongs only to your system it's
> still better to report it. It might be a bug. It might be fixed. If it's
> not a bug, developer will just close bug report and say "dude, your system
> is a complete mess, sorry" ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitry.
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