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Re: Thanks
by Sebastian on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @07:28

I am sorry to have left this impression. That was not on my mind. Though, I was really looking forward to the release and spent a whole day, just trying to get used to the new kind of software. A few details behaved different from what I expected.

This may be the wrong place to start a debate on bugs.kde.org, but I feel personally offended: I filed many many bug reports during the last years. They even receive some ratings by public votes. It is the minority where any KDE developer reacted at all. Some were just closed after a few years, because the feature it was referring to was removed, but not because a developer cared. By saying this, I do not want to blame the majority of developers, KDE is doing a great job, else I would not use bugs.kde.org. I just mention it, though I do not care much - KDE is not a company where I bought an expensive product. But please realize, that this is also not encouraging. So, my personal experiences with bugs.kde.org teached me to apply it only to severe bugs and wishes. Maybe this is the reason why I mentioned this here.

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Re: Thanks
by Peter Penz on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @08:22

> This may be the wrong place to start a debate on bugs.kde.org,
> but I feel personally offended:

Sorry Sebastian, it was not my intention to offend you.

> I filed many many bug reports during the last years.

Thanks for this!

> It is the minority where any KDE developer reacted at all

I understand that this is frustrating and for sure we developers have to be more careful for responding to bug-reports.

> But please realize, that this is also not encouraging.

Yes, I agree and I'm not sure how this can be improved...

Still the tendency to write about things that don't work on forums and blogs has increased a lot during the last years. It is fully OK to write about things that don't work, but I think the balance of writing about cool things vs. writing about things that don't work has shifted a lot to the "writing about things that don't work"-camp. Please note that this is just a general statement and my personal impression, this is not directly related to your comment :-)

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