On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:52:57 +0200,
Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Given these resource limitations, bug reporters have to be selective
in their reporting. The volume of code and the number of problems to
report is literally more than they can handle. In order to handle the
workload, they filter ruthlessly. If a project takes months to answer
a bug report, or repeatedly asks to retest or confirm a problem no one
has looked at still exists, that's unlikely to get as much attention
as a project that is quick to process reports and does not make
reporters feel they're wasting their time. I'm not saying that this is
good, bad, or indifferent, but simply a fact of life in the open
source world.
I can tell you that is in fact true for my case. I cerntainly don't have the
time to report and deal with followups for every issue I run accross in
Fedora. I prioritize based in part in how important the issue is to me and
how likely I think other people are to report an issue.