On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > > For sure, this kind of "decline" is not that visible. We still have > new contributors, we still manage to do releases, we still have an > ever growing number of packages. But, we have less bug reports. We have > partly abandoned packages, including in the "core" of the > distribution. We have an installer that has just been "rescued" by > nearly a "one-man" effort. And I probably forget many other examples. > > This is sometimes hidden by the incredible work and investment of > several people in the project (yes, that's probably mean whoever is > reading this). > > But, still, yes, I feel we are in danger in some way. That may sound alarming > (death of Debian predicted, film at 11), but, really, getting new > blood is important for us....if we don't want to shrink into a club of > old chaps who are doing Debian "just for their needs" but can't manage > to do it anymore because there is too much to do..:-). >
A thread like this really makes me feel bad personally. I am no real programmer, but I am a power user for sure, and on my way to being a sysadmin. But I basically never report bugs. I have used Sid for years, and in fact I often don't notice bugs in my personal workflow (maybe if I can think of myself as a user? I notice end-user-impacting bugs in other areas). If someone comes over and sees me working the might say, "wow that is an annoying bug" and I say "what bug? Oh that. I didn't notice, I just worked around it." Even with bugs I do notice, I usually just ignore and work around until it is fixed. I guess it is a combo of never having gotten comfortable with the bug report workflow and never feeling like I could go deep enough into debugging to be very useful (I have gotten useful info out of gdb maybe twice over the years). Now I am just in a habit of not doing it. Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=-m_bpbsc4krvfdwzt3+0o3_fwx7wyeppn_9yb-_ok...@mail.gmail.com
