On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 11:02:17AM +0300, Consus wrote:
> On 18:15 Wed 08 Jan, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> > It would be better to point out where to start, what hard problems to
> > solve, what work has been done in this area that people can continue
> > to work on.
>
> They don't remember as there is no bugtracker.
When people report actual bugs, they get fixed so fast that tracking
them over days or weeks would be pointless.
"""
We thank Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD developers for their incredibly
quick response: they published patches for these vulnerabilities less
than 40 hours after our initial contact.
""" -- Qualys
Any non-critical stuff which gets reported ("my printer/wifi/usb doesn't work",
"kernel does not boot on my new laptop", "my system works but is slow") just
lands in an endless pile of problems that someone might eventually decide to
work on if they run into it again. Such issues happen over and over again,
all the time. Any developer picking them up ASAP over and over would burn out,
just like they do in companies with issue-tracker driven workflows. That's why
people demanding loudly to get such issues fixed are told to shut up.
And keep in mind that at any given moment there are only about 50 to 100
people doing actual work here. The rest of the world is busy elsewhere or
slacking.
