PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU WRITE A BUGREPORT (was Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] build error)

[Marcus Thiesen]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:41, Attila Kinali wrote:
> So, to put it short: Use mplayer-users or you will never get an answer!

Maybe you should just add a mplayer-bugs list and all the problems vanish....
because I don't understand why the users list is for bug reports. If I have a 
problem which is clearly a problem in the source, why shouldn't I tell the 
developers and bother other users? 

>PPS: If you think that we are obligated to read your bugreport
>and fix it, you should learn how OSS development works.

The users list is the most unfriendly list I've ever seen in OSS development. 
This auto-header thing is something I personally find very disencouraging and 
newbie unfriendly. Who wants to be part of a community that always tells you 
that you're to stupid to look into the manual. As OSS is about community 
maybe somebody else should learn how OSS development works.

Have fun,
	Marcus

P.S.: If I was offending, I actually didn't intend to be so. But the way some 
of the core developers talk to people who just want to be helpfull and 
actually use the software gets me pissed. If you intend not to have less 
skilled people use your software make it closed source and sell it for 50K 
bugs. 

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