Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 04:39:58 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver and no update in /usr/ports/UPDATING Message-ID: <20220408043958.788fb8e1d0d404c590a211d2@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <Yk%2BqU539Vj%2BjS5a4@cloud9.zyxst.net> References: <Yk9tEmvtQB5JEWoz@cloud9.zyxst.net> <Yk%2Bfip5KdWYjn99h@cloud9.zyxst.net> <20220408040100.7ce89e7d46a0cea249a89711@sohara.org> <Yk%2BqU539Vj%2BjS5a4@cloud9.zyxst.net>
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 04:21:55 +0100 tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote: > Where, exactly, did I rant, in that report? Honestly, I can't > see where. It's a rant because it's not actionable. You failed to explain the impact on the user - you clearly know what the impact was but I couldn't tell from your bug report what the entry needed to tell the user just that you thought one was needed to tell people something about a name change. A suggested entry would go a *long* way to getting it addressed - you clearly know what the entry should say having solved the problems yourself but you didn't bother to share your experience in detail. > From my reading of it, it's completely reasonable. I illustrated the > before and after, explained the problem, and revisited it when the > same problem happened again. Both times unanswered. Because you didn't provide a solution when you could and should have done so and you didn't make it easy for the triager to assess the importance of the bug. > I think I may have errored in that on submission I didn't do > the maintainer ? thing. At the time I thought submitting > the report was sufficient. No it isn't - you the bug reporter are part of the solution the onus is on the reporter to write an actionable bug report - one of the benefits of commercial software development is that when a bug report isn't up to standard we developers get to punt it back to a professional to do the leg work. Volunteer projects don't have that expensive luxury and rely on users to provide actionable bug reports - and the most actionable ones are the ones with patches and naming the person best suited to review the patch and commit it. That's what makes it a community project. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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