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activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s fair enough, but it’s a bit of both (satire and reality). It’s actually a true account (details withheld because I have a bit of respect for the developer in the recent case). This is something that really happens. Not often, but occasionally there are devs & others who expect bug reporters to do a fix. There’s a poor attitude that bug reporters are in some way a beneficiary/consumer. When in fact the bug reporter is a volunteer contributor, just like the dev. It’s just as wrong for a dev to demand work a bug reporter work on the code as it is for a bug reporter to demand work from a dev. Everyone gives what they can or want. A bug report is not an individual support request. It’s a community bug – one that may or may not even affect the bug reporter.

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