On Bugzilla and spreading FOSS, was: Where Fedora Went Wrong...

[Rahul Sundaram]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, May 16,  R. Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> 
>> You can choose to not contribute anything back and only expect to
>> get everything for free but if everybody chooses to be selfish you
>> wouldn't get what you are getting. This is a ecosystem that relies
>> folks investing resources like their own time or money. If you have
>> the time to complain you have time to contribute.
> 
> I have already explained (1) why I believe the "This is a COMMUNITY,
> so you must contribute to it in some way" slogan, even when expressed
> politely and in full good faith as Rahul just did, is... let's say
> counterproductive, these days, so I won't repeat it here.

Did I ever say you must? Don't put words on my mouth.

> The only problem is that expecting that software *newbies* will ever
> understand by themselves how to correctly use anything like bugzilla
> is just foolish.

Sure, bugzilla is not the best tracking interface around. There are 
folks who have been trying out other systems too but we can't just go 
around implementing what we think is the best. A key aspect of any 
distribution is that bugs have been tracked across several different 
upstream projects. Bugzilla is finally getting that straightened out. 
Hopefully we will see it improved or replaced. Meanwhile I wrote

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests

Rahul