[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:45:09PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

> this is bullshit. i make myself available to "some people" via IRC and
> email and web forums for up to 15 hours a day, typically 6 or sometimes 7
> days a week.

Fine, but what purpose does this serve if no trace of all that
activity is kept on your side ?

> clearly, you're not working on any projects with the kind of bug flow that
> i do, let alone ones i've worked on in the past.

I do get less bug reports, that's clear. 

> at what point do you believe that this "the developer should take care of
> it" scales itself out of existence?  5 bugs a day? 10 bugs a day? and what
> happens when there are >1 developers? who "writes it down on a post-it(TM)"
> or enters it in the tracker? whose bug is it then anyway?

Something doesn't add up here. Entering a bug in a tracker, if you use
one, is the first of *many* actions in the process of fixing it. It's
not the most time consuming one. If this tiny part of the process is
already overwhelming, what about the rest ? 

Ciao,

-- 
FA

A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)