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Oh hey I found a bug, let me file a bug report. Oh, it already exists. Opened 9 years ago. With 27 comments. And two dupes. *sigh* Here's a diagnosis of the problem. And here's a patch to fix it, because clearly if I don't nobody else will.https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/381677 …
This just strikes me as terribly inefficient. Surely in 9 years someone more qualified than me with actual familiarity with the codebase could've looked at the bug and fixed it, right? I mean I spent most of the time just learning about Inkscape's object model and Cairo.
To be clear here, I'm by no means dissing @inkscape and its developers! We all do our best to work on the projects we maintain. I'm just thinking it'd be more efficient to have more specialized devs than people randomly contributing fixes.
Then again, I tend to get bored of stuff and move on to something else... perhaps that's a significant factor in the "random fixes". Maybe it's more efficient after all for people who get bored easily to jump around rather than attempt to stick to one thing.
I do not think Canonical's launchpad platform should be taken as the reference bugstore for project inkscape, maybe you should try to reach out to them first?
Launchpad *is* the reference bug tracker for Inkscape. https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/report-bugs/ …
``someone more qualified than me,, means one person from a pool of roughly 4-6 (varies across time, not always the same people), looking at one old bug in a pool of 4000, and few of them has any knowledge of cairo rendering stuff.
As for the fix, if you want, you can make the merge request on https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/ … (or I can do it this evening after work)
Thats what keeps OSS rolling ! That bug annoys me - here is a fix. I am also hours on fixing things each day cause else nobody does it. Need more ppl like you !
Oh, it definitely works, it's just inefficient, I think. I'm thinking, if a pool of X random contributors are contributing to random projects, their time would be better spent specializing on specific projects. Working on something you know is more efficient.
"More qualified" is a concept that doesn't work in FOSS The only qualifications anyone *should* give a damn about in FOSS are, motivation, open mindedness, and willingness to learn. (with the notible exception of crypto work. If you're not a MSci of cryptography leave it alone)
This makes you at that moment in time the most qualified person for the job in the entire world. FOSS isn't about efficency it's about accessability.
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