alt Hacker NewsA couple of big projects in the python space use this approach. Pisses me off as a power user. I find what are clearly bugs all the time, and am forced through a funnel that places the burden on me. Stinks of arrogance to think your project is that rock solid you should add friction for reporting bugs. Especially in “forever v0” projects.
But, I am super lazy.
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gertop • today at 6:59 AM
To be fair it also stinks of arrogance to think that you have the skills to know "what is clearly a bug" 100% of the time in projects you don't own.
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I always struggle to understand this level of entitlement. No one is forcing you to use any of these projects. The vast majority of the time, drive-by bug reports by users are a complete waste of time because they're either a user error or not described in sufficient detail to debug. In other words, mostly noise, and adding more noise isn't really helpful.
If you want to contribute, a much better way is to work on bugs that are already well defined. There is generally no shortage of known bugs in software, there is however a shortage of people fixing them.