On: The open source paradox

[pixelrevision]

Seems to me the best thing is to make it as easy as possible for the maintainer (clear, with environment and steps to reproduce). The majority of maintainers want to iron out any bugs they have and the more of a checklist item the report is the happier they are going to be. It’s the GitHub ticket comment spew of “I have this bug too! fix this shit now!” that really wears people down.

[bickeringyokel → pixelrevision]

Gauging demand can sometimes be useful in planning a project can it not? I mean, if the comments are phrased nicer than your example.

[noisem4ker → bickeringyokel]

On several bug trackers there are structured ways to make it known without commenting. On GitHub, at least there's thumbs-up reactions.