This week I have experienced both the good and the bad with working with open source.
The good: Today I asked in gcc IRC channel about build failure of cross compiler. They were able the help me in the right direction and I found out it must be a bug in busybox awk. Feels so good to find that out, after banging my head into this for a couple of days. Ask for help early!
(still don't know exactly how busybox awk is broken
More of the good:
I took the time to register an account at kde bug tracker (I was surprised I didn't already have one! - or I just forgot the email address I used last time) - and file a bug. Within hours the fix was pointed to me and we could properly solve it.
I had the privilege to report back that the fix indeed works.
Feels good! Open Source can be very nice
The not so good:
We got a bug report that was something like: "why don't you backport security fixes for some of the packages in community?"
us: "ok, which package is it?"
them: "I won't tell you. Its your job to know and its your job to fix".
And we had to deal with a violation of the Code of Conduct. Not fun at all.
Would have been so much nicer if we could get help find a solution for the problem instead of demanding complaints.
Don't be that person.
Fortunately, most people are nice
@ncopa Those people don't take into account that we are all volunteers, most of us are working on FOSS unpaid, and during our freetime (which is often limited).