From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:14:57 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="102796"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: 41373@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 04:16:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jaVKE-000QcX-Hp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 04:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32800 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaVKD-0007in-2Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Let=E2=80=99s file a bug and then s= ubmit the fix for it=E2=80=A6 except=E2=80=A6 the project.el file contains absolu= tely no information about how to submit bugs or patches. There=E2=80=99s nothin= g on the project.el web page. No websites, no bug tracker, no email addresses. Folks, if you maintain Open Source software and you ever wonder why you=E2=80=99re not getting contributions=E2=80=A6 this is why you=E2=80= =99re not getting contributions: because you don=E2=80=99t spend any time thinking about = making it easy (or in this case, even possible) for folks to contribute back to your project. So, instead of supplying a bug report and a patch, so that other folks might avoid this problem when they upgrade their Emacs packages (and instead of working on PROJECT APOLLO, like I planned to do today), I=E2= =80=99m writing this blog post. Hopefully, after I post this online in a few places, Cunningham=E2=80=99s Law will kick in and somebody will show up= and tell me where I can send this patch after all=E2=80=A6 https://genehack.blog/2020/05/open-source-annoyances-and-affordances/ I think this is situation could be alleviated by including a static section on the pages for individual packages which explains how to report bugs. Best regards, Stefan Kangas