"Please file a bug!"

I received a few comments on my previous post, some of which suggested that I file a bugreport explaining my thoughts. Of course I did consider that; and I do agree that in many cases, filing a bugreport is the right thing to do. However, this is not always the case.

There are times when you just know that a bug which expresses your feelings towards a particular thing will just be closed on sight, or at the very least tagged 'wontfix'. Filing a bugreport in such a case is just not helpful, and a waste of both my time and that of the maintainer. As such, I just don't do it.

Instead, what I will do is rant. Not because I want to annoy the world, but because it helps me to blow off steam—that's what my blog is for. Also, writing out my thoughts on a particular subject will often help me to reconsider things in such a way that I'll be able to better formulate what the real bug really is; and if it doesn't, it's likely that other people will respond and point me towards what I'm misunderstanding—if I am—so that, again, I might be able to better formulate what the bug really is.

If I sound frustrated in a rant, that's because I am. The simple fact that someone changed something in a piece of technology that I'm using with the intent of improving things should not have to mean that I agree that it is, indeed, an improvement. I will not hide my feelings because it might offend someone. I've done that too much in the past.

So please, pretty please, with sugar on top, when I'm ranting, do not tell me to file a bug report.

That is all.