On 19/02/2013 03:32, jonc wrote:
Should developers pay attention when someone says,"Hey! This is
broken!"? Of course.
Given my experience of Fedora bugs being ignored until the EOL bot
closes them, it suggests that they don't even do that the vast majority
of the time.
Should they pay attention when someone says, "This
sucks!" Well, that's up to them. They have little to lose or gain either
way.
And now you touch upon another important issue. This is more of a distro
maintenance issue. It is also probably why Ubuntu maintainers pay more
attention to such things - because their users are their _customers_.
Without those, there's no revenue.
With Fedora the problem is one giant leap removed because the customers
get a distribution after an extra 6-12 months of polishing and
stabilizing, but still suffering all the questionable decisions made for
users (where it's easy to take the "my way or highway" view) rather than
customers.
Gordan