[calcifer]

GTK is developed entirely by volunteers. None of the "rules" of bug reporting in this thread apply. If it's a business selling something to you? Sure, don't bother if they don't seem to care.

But with volunteer-driven FOSS projects, what you want as an end user is much, much lower on the list of priorities compared to a business product. Even if you have implemented the "fix" [1] yourself, they might still not accept it unless you're willing to stay around and maintain it yourself. And that's perfectly fine.

[1] Assuming that the maintainers agree that it's a bug and not a feature request in disguise.

[account42]

This doesn't change the original point that such behavior makes it less likely for users to bother with detailed bug reports. Bug reporting in OSS isn't just the developers doing free work for the users to fix their issues, it is also the users doing free work for the developer QA-testing their software.

[freeone3000]

For GTK, it’s all free work. You didn’t pay for it. You got the source for free. So yes, you are doing free work for the GTK team, just like anyone contributing to GTK is doing free work to fix it for you. This is fair.

[stalfosknight]

The thing I dislike the most about the Linux world is how free software/developers are somehow exempt from any kind of criticism because it is "developed by volunteers."

[calcifer]

Criticism is fine, as long as it's constructive and not to the tune of "these volunteers are not volunteering to my satisfaction".

[stalfosknight]

I completely agree with you. It's generally bad form to complain about something that is provided to you free of charge but sometimes even then criticism can be warranted. There is a tendency to immediately swat away any kind of criticism of a project or even just a particular developer's behavior with "how dare you complain about free software!!!".