On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Chad
<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well thankfully the majority of 3rd party users
have a better feeling
about reporting bugs when they find them.
I'm not sure where you got the statistics for that statement, but hey, you
should publicize it. "Mediawiki - more than half of discovered
vulnerabilities are fixed!"
Anthony, that was uncalled for. Nobody has suggested that identified
bugs aren't fixed. Nobody has suggested that reported bugs aren't
fixed.
You are under no legal responsibility to report new bugs you may be
aware of, but if you claim to have any interest in the Wikimedia /
Wikipedia communities you should have a moral responsibility to do so.
Commercial vendors that charge for software may, at their discretion,
offer bug bounties - that's normal. Asking open source developers for
bounties is not moral or ethical - there's no fee for using the
software, why ask for a fee for helping improve it by reporting bugs?
We can't make you do it, but you should. If you won't, perhaps you
should just drop off the project membership emails and find something
else to do - someone sitting here on these lists taunting "I know
about bugs that you don't", if persistent, would be a gross violation
of etiquette.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com