▲ 165 ▼ How often do you contribute to open source projects? (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] roertel@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children) I like to think that using FOSS daily, singing its praises to everyone and filing out the occasional bug report counts. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) It does. I wish more people recognized that bug reports are contributions. Probably only 1% of users file bug reports. That means for every 100 times a bug is found by a user, 99 of them won't bother reporting it. Devs can't fix a bug they dont know about... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them. Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pantherina@feddit.de -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) No it doesnt XD permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Going to time and effort to help improve something = contributing Absolutely love others testing my code for me because they find things I would've never run into myself permalink fedilink source parent
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) It does. I wish more people recognized that bug reports are contributions. Probably only 1% of users file bug reports. That means for every 100 times a bug is found by a user, 99 of them won't bother reporting it. Devs can't fix a bug they dont know about... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them. Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them. Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pantherina@feddit.de -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) No it doesnt XD permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Going to time and effort to help improve something = contributing Absolutely love others testing my code for me because they find things I would've never run into myself permalink fedilink source parent
[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Going to time and effort to help improve something = contributing Absolutely love others testing my code for me because they find things I would've never run into myself permalink fedilink source parent