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.

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johnfn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is like being forced to pay 50 bucks to your apartment because someone else broke the door. Then when you complain about it people tell you you’re entitled!

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Mawr 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's zero entitlement expressed by the parent, he's just trying to help the project, but is encountering unnecessary friction.

It's not that he has some inner urge to contribute in some way, he just encountered a bug while using the software and wants to report it. The alternative isn't coding — it's no contribution at all.

	▲	Etheryte 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think this is exactly the point most people miss. No contribution is better than bad contribution. Most issues people file are bad. I previously worked at a major OSS company and the vast majority of bug reports are just noise. It takes time to sift through them and they add no value, just waste time. If people did less of that, that would be a good outcome, not a bad one. Sure, there's useful reports there sometimes, but it's more rare than you'd think. On top of that, many of those are dupes of issues we've already found and filed, just haven't had time to fix yet.
	▲	ncruces 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maintainers did a bunch of useful work for them and they refuse to report issues the way maintainers find the most useful, because it's a burden to help maintainers do all their free work.
	▲	skywhopper 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How is “submit your issue to this nearly identical discussion tool in the same web app” a burden?

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IshKebab 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> No one is forcing you to use any of these projects

Unless you only ever work on projects that you have full absolute control over (unlikely if you have a job) then yes they absolutely are.