[Bug 166186] Broken pipe in KIO after network connection lost

[Juha Tuomala]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166186





--- Comment #11 from Juha Tuomala <tuju iki fi>  2009-09-30 23:07:09 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> It's unrelated to this report, bug: the kaddressbook author closed all
> kaddressbook bugs 

True.

> because he rewrote completely the GUI while also porting
> kaddressbook to a new technology, akonadi. There is therefore -very- little
> left of the old kaddressbook (just a few dialogs).

True.

> If you find that an old bug still applies in 4.4 once it's 
> released, feel free to reopen it. 

Cannot since I'm not the owner.

> I was a bit surprised by this move too, but it kind of makes sense: 
> rather than the maintainer having to go through 500 old bugs to keep
> only the still-valid ones, why not share that work with others 
> who can do it: those who reported them.

I agree with you fully. But you missed that he flushed completely 
valid feature *wishes* which in most cases don't have anything to
do with rewrite which doesn't change features that much. And that was the
exact case, *those* he closed *were* valid, had good discussion history 
which at least I consider somewhat valuable community participation.

Another point is to modify vanilla bugzilla so much, that community
cannot take part to clean up those 500 bugs. That's what people exactly 
would like to do, but are not even trusted for that - apparently.
Lot of those wishes were also so old, that original report might have
disappeared (at least I've not seen re-openings).

I've noticed that some developers ignore the reports completely and
let the reports pile up. Makes then wonder, why to have such database
at all.

Showing such ignorance and arrogance towards the community drives 
people away by just plain disgust. In my opinion at some parts KDE
has grown too big and popular and healthy community doesn't exist 
anymore. Sometimes it reminds me from GNOME-users-are-stupid-episode.

I used to report most of the crashes and thought that it would make
difference, but whatta hell, now I've more time to something else.

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