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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Responsive projects (was: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today
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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 23:42:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:47:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <v1ir6d$o14n$1@dont-email.me>:

> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Thu, 09 May 2024 04:34:14 +0000, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 19:39:09 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Here's what I posted to cola Apr 2019, when running Solus Linux with
>>>> the Budgie desktop.
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_(desktop_environment)
>>> 
>>> Could you possibly find a more obscure/fucked up distro?
>>
>> For what it's worth, I appreciate that DFS is looking for minuscule 
>> problems in Linux and pointing them out. You can't make anything better if 
>> you're not going to be honest about its flaws. Unfortunately, even after 
>> he points out the flaws and submits bug reports, the developers don't seem 
>> to do anything to fix it.
> 
> That's a project problem, not a platform problem.
> 
> Microsoft itself seems to treat issue reports in a similar manner to bad
> projects. So often in a Microsoft help forum, you'll get non-answers or no
> answers, with user's getting plaintive about the lack of help.
> 
> Other companies act the same, all too often.
> 
> I wouldn't ding small open-source team for being slow in responding to bugs, as
> they may have other more important things on their plate.
> 
> I will note one responsive project: Meson, on GitHub. Meson was using a file
> called "meson_options.txt" to hold default values for project options. I wrote
> up an issue about it (as had others earlier, apparently), and I noted that
> the "txt" extension is too generic, and that I edited my /etc/DIR_COLORS file
> so that I could grok a directory listing faster. And in version 1.1 IIRC,
> voila, there was meson.options to supplement meson.build.

I posted an issue for gmime yesterday, and ended up in a dialogue
with the lead developer.

Pan users will note that I was bird-dogging a problem that has plagued
pan since they moved to gmime for handling headers -- currently,
Newsgroups: lines don't wrap properly, and get MIME-encoded
if they are too long.  News servers choke on that.  (My C is too rusty
to fix it easily, but I can see where the fix should go.)

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