On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:02 AM, openindiana <openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: Jan Owoc [mailto:jso...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:50 PM >> >> > Where is a good place to report this bug? >> >> The issue tracker is: >> https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues > > So, this is a common problem with a lot of open source projects. In order to > report a bug, you have to reproduce it, go to the website, create an account, > with email verification, and in this case, ssh keys for some reason...
I agree that it is an annoyance. I have over a dozen accounts on random trackers most of which I've used once. The usual rationale is that we need a way to contact you if we have further questions. > Most people wouldn't have bothered, but I actually reformatted my system in > order to reproduce the bug. I'm not going to register on the bug tracker... > But here are my notes, just in case anybody will enter it, who will bother > with the effort: The way most free software projects work is that there is a limited number of volunteers with a limited amount of time. If you describe a bug without a step-by-step way of reproducing it, one of said volunteers may waste an hour or two trying to reproduce the bug. Alternatively, since you've sent a detailed step-by-step analysis to a public mailing list, anyone with an account could create the bug report, pasting your text. I probably should have linked to this discussion in the bug report: https://www.illumos.org/issues/3072 > Now try launching Time Slider again. Magically it works. That is a bug, > my friends. Thank you for your time. With free software projects, you can choose between paying money for support (I'm sure there are people on this list who, for a fee, could find and fix you bug), or contributing some time and getting a solution for free. If you want a solution faster, then I suggest trying what Jim suggested and posting the result: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-August/009016.html Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
