[walrus]

I don't understand some of the people commenting on the bug report. If they really want it fixed, then they should fix it. Making rude comments isn't going to make it go any faster.

[nightski]

My guess is MySQL has quite a few users who are not technically capable of fixing a deep and involved bug in the heart of a database engine.

[protomyth]

and I would imagine some of the people filing bugs are people who are paying for support given MySQL and, later, Oracle's business model

[lucb1e]

As someone who had issues with a 4+ year old bug in FileZilla, can confirm. First time I developed anything serious in C++ and it took me only two evenings to develop a patch. Then some back and forth on the bugtracker, but it made it in soon after.

(For those interested, it's the ability to create a new, empty file on the server.)

[breakingcups]

Surely the two issues aren't of the same complexity.

[lucb1e]

I don't know how the trigger system is structured under the hood, but I could imagine it being somewhat comparative if you can properly call them. At least one of the commenters could have tried something or asked for pointers where to find it, that triggers others to actually work on it or at least help them work on it.

[infamouscow]

Exactly.

One of the major reasons to pick open-source software over a proprietary software is you can fix bugs that the vendor or developers won't.