Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:24:08PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Moreover, I forgot to mention earlier, JWZ's _real_ objection was to ignoring numerous important bugs for a year or three, followed by making them vanish by closing them with the excuse of them being now irrelevant because of GNOME3.
at the time, it was because of gnome 2. the same thing happened for gnome 3, too.
because rewriting from scratch is more fun than fixing bugs.
and, anyway, people who report bugs are just whingers who don't understand the grand vision - definitely not the target market.
I remember when Ubuntu was new, and they had malone (launchpad's BTS) and apport instead of reportbug. And that was hailed as grand and wonderful, because now Ordinary People could submit bug reports without a working MUA. But for some reason the *quality* of the bug reports went downhill, so they ended up with squillions of useless duplicate "moreinfo" bugs. I forget what happened next exactly, just that it made me angry.