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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 😨 )

Natanael Copa

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).