On Wednesday 21 September 2011 Sep, Reindl Harald wrote: > what exactly are you missing in the difference between developers / users > > my user-support is writing bug-reports, this is what i can do > and this bugreport is the best sample that nobody is interested in the > help of users - so the developers have two options: test their code > or reply to bugreports > > who do you think you are tell everybody he has to shut up if the > if he is no kde-developer and can not fix bugs on his own?
Well, Brad is one of the kde core developers... He's got a right to tell people they need to start considering helping out. For this bug, it seems that the author of the code has disappeared in October 2010, before the report was opened. At least, I cannot find any commits by him to the folderview code anymore. Which sort of explains why nothing happened. An organisation like KDE cannot hire developers if people develop other interests and stop working on their code. It might even take quite a bit of time before anyone notices someone isn't around anymore. And then there's no guarantee anyone will pick up on the slack. What KDE needs is a constant stream of new volunteers who are prepared to take over existing code. Personally, and speaking as a KDE developer, I never have noticed this bug myself because I don't use a folderview on my desktop. Had I used folderview, I might still not have noticed because I might not have used it for renaming files. Had I used folderview and I had I tried to rename files, I still might not have noticed the bug because I might have used the mouse to leave the text entry field. But I'm not using folderview, and besides, my own project takes all my time and I have bugs dating back to 2006 that still need fixing... Getting nasty and impatient helps nobody, is not constructive, is not polite, doesn't teach anyone a lesson or makes anyone eager to please you. It's counter-productive. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
