Hi,
Thanks for your reply,
I'm afraid I've always found the bug tracker a very inaccessible thing.
Despite having a decent amount of technical knowledge, I find it
daunting, and a jarring thing to cope with mentally.
This is why i come to the mailing lists to seek help, but as you note,
devs do not seem to inhabit/monitor this place, and i would not like this
bug to be overlooked.
Perhaps someone can help me with the bug tracker?
Long ago, i was part of the LFS community, which was always a place
where devs were excellent at interacting with users.
I attended debconf 11, but found it hard to make connections there.
Much of my experience of using / contributing to FOSS projects was in the
period from 2000-2008, and (to my eyes) it is shocking how, in general,
FOSS project communities have split into hierarchical Dev/user systems.
I dont think this is a good sign of the times, and to my mind it is
evidence of a corporate sickness that threatens to destroy FOSS community
that would have been Microsoft's wet dream back then, and something which
used to be strongly resisted, not encouraged.
Users are one of the pillars of FOSS. without them, projects wither and
die, whilst the corporate world subsumes them...
Maybe its just one persons opinion though. I hope not!
