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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> To: scribus-dev@lists.scribus.net<br>> From: gpittman@iglou.com<br>> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 14:52:03 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] What does “acknowledged” issue status mean?<br>> <br>> On 11/01/2015 05:14 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:<br>> > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 08:35:14AM +0100, JLuc wrote:<br>> >> ale has answered well but here are a few more precisions :<br>> >> in the scribus community only few people are C++ developpers and have commit rights :<br>> >> franz, MrB=Craig and jghali (and also avox when he is there).<br>> >><br>> >> In a bug report their voice should be more important for you to know<br>> >> what features or code will possibly be merged.<br>> > <br>> > But asking for core contributors opinion before working on any issue is<br>> > counter productive and decreases the usefulness of the bug tracker<br>> > greatly. On the other hand working on some issue to found that the<br>> > feature is deemed unacceptable is demotivating, such issues should not<br>> > have been kept open in the first place.<br>> > <br>> <br>> Like any ad hoc system, it's hard to be always sensible and fair. One<br>> reason for letting some feature request hang out there is to see if<br>> others see the feature as useful. In general, it's not a good idea to<br>> just start implemented requested features unless you know that there is<br>> some consensus that it would be good to have. Sometimes a collection of<br>> minor feature requests can be combined in some new collective feature.<br>> <br>> Generally speaking fixing bugs is a good thing, provided they're<br>> reproducible and produce something drastic like a crash.<br>> <br>> Greg<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mozilla periodically has "paper cuts" projects where they focus on fixing "the stuff that gets in the way or annoys you about Firefox on a daily basis", see <a href="http://limi.net/articles/papercuts/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://limi.net/articles/papercuts/</a> and <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/03/papercuts2/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/03/papercuts2/</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> . Regards, William</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div> </div></body>
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