Is anybody is fixing bugs?

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi Sven,

On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36:53 Sven Anders wrote:
> Im am a user, and write bug reports. I found an bug, which was found by an
> other user nearly two years (2005-07-14) ago [Bug 109059] . But nobody has
> fixed this bug until today.
>
> So shall I write more bug reports, or shall I not write any bug reports,
> because it wont change anythink?
>
> I would like that a bug reporter is contact by a developer (who "owns" this
> bug) in a specific time (e.g. 1 month).

Unfortunately, this is not how Free Software (and specifically KDE) works. You 
can't force people to fix bugs or react to reports within a certain 
timeframe -- most of the people are volunteers after all.

That said, it's wrong to conclude from one bug not being handled in a timely 
manner that bugreporting is useless. There are a lot of bugs fixed every day 
(http://www.commit-digest.org/ has more details in the statistics section).

On another note, as you can imagine, KDE developers are busy people, 
especially with KDE 4.0 approaching quickly and help would be greatly 
appreciated. Even if you're not into coding, you can make a difference, 
either by triaging bugs (making it easier for developers to find useful 
information in bugreports), by promoting, translating, creating artwork, 
maintaining and developing websites, taking part in the HIG hunting season 
and so on.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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