On 10:45 Thu 09 Jan, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 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.
Relax, it was a joke.
