hi; On 17 January 2014 13:08, Marshall Neill <ramie...@windstream.net> wrote: > I have a feeling this will upset the developers but I believe it has to be > said.,
if you start from this, you probably should re-evaluate sending your email in the first place. well, too late, now. > I recently read that there are 46,000 bugs in Gnome 3. no, there are 46,000 tickets open (excluding requests for enhancements) in the *whole* GNOME Bugzilla as for 2013: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2014-January/msg00062.html that contains actual bugs, as well as untriaged issues that may be resolved as duplicates, obsolete issues, invalid issues, requests for enhancement, or actual bugs. I do suggest you read that email I linked, and if you have questions on the statistics for the bug tracking system you should ask the bug squad. > Now I would think logic would dictate that you fix bugs instead of > implementing new features. that's not how it works in software development (or life in general), and especially that's not how it works in volunteer-driven software projects. volunteer time is not fungible: you cannot swap out people or effort among different tasks. also, you cannot dictate what people should work on, because that rarely ends well. > Seems like the developers are more interested in change than fixing what is > broken. that's a radical interpretation of the text, if I ever saw one. you should look at the statistics for bugs reported and closed. > If that logic was applied to automobiles I believe public outcry would > demand that the vehicles be fixed first. this is a logical fallacy: software is not a car. > Now, new features that no one really asked for are implemented and the bugs > keep piling up and extensions that worked, don't, themes that worked, don't. > Well, enough of my rant. I think you can see where I am coming from. I do see where you're coming from, but neither the premise nor the conclusion are correct. also, it most definitely does not relate to the development of the gnome-shell project. you probably wanted to use desktop-devel-list instead. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
