Re: Bogusing bot (Was: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0)

Danke, Jani. Cheers, John On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:29 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Jani, > > Jani, thanks for the work! If it wasn't you we all had to do it and > everybody had to keep track. Having you doing all the checks is quit > econvenient (for us). > > best regards > marcus > > Thursday, September 15, 2005, 1:25:56 PM, you wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Leigh Makewell wrote: > > >> joke. People critisise and joke about PHP's automatic "Bogus" bot that > >> just > >> trolls through the database and marks any submitted bugs as "Bogus". What is > >> > >> the point of making the bug database public? > > > 1) I'm not a bot. > > 2) I'm not bogusing automatically anything (except for few exceptions [1]) > > 3) I spend a LOT of my free time, without getting paid > > testing hundreds of wierd code pieces people send, > > configuring and compiling PHP with wierd configure lines, > > etc. > > > Never forget: MOST of us (me included) do NOT get paid for this. > > And handling bug reports is propably the most ungrateful "jobs" > > there is. > > > I can count the times I've been thanked personally with one hand. > > Most of the time people send me hate email. :) > > >> highlights it. Why should we bother to continue to support the community when > >> the community doesn't support us? We owe PHP nothing. There are plenty of > >> alternatives out there. > > > It's the community who should support the developers, not the other > > way around. We owe the community nothing, the community owes us everything. > > >> Now don't get me wrong. This is not aimed at everyone. I believe you Rasmus > > > Don't lie. You aimed quite well. :) > > > --Jani > > > [1] People seem to think their problem is the most important one > > and even if it's been reported before, still send it as new one.. > > in which case their report gets very quickly bogused. :) > > There are several other reasons why to do that, but for _valid_ > > bug reports this happens VERY rarely. (Try piss me off and you'll see) > > > > > Best regards, > Marcus >