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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)


On 23 April 2010 22:23, PaweÅ Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> wrote:
> On Friday 23 April 2010 22:05:56 HyperQuantum wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, HyperQuantum <hyperquantum@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez
>> >
>> > <lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC?
>> >
>> > The lack of time, for the most part.
>>
>> I submitted a feature request once. It's now four years old, still
>> open, and the last message it received was two years ago. (PR26061)
>
> i'm trying to contribute to gcc/glibc via testing on my codebase
> and... i have abandoned/rejected long standing PRs too :(
>
> e.g:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/PR20128
> http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28811
> http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28854
> http://gcc.gnu.org/PR36568 vs. http://sourceware.org/PR6693
>
> people don't like wait for a years for bug classification/fixing ;)

You can find this in every software project that has an userbase
larger than the developer base, free-software or proprietary. You can
find this in every large and mature free-software project. In the
proprietary world there is little you can do. In the free-software
world, you can actually help to fix it. To alleviate this problem (it
will never go away), we need more contributors. Wanna help?

In any case, I think coming from you it is a bit hurtful because I
have personally fixed many of your bugs and I haven't seen a single
beer yet! Where is my beer?

Manuel.


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