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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Release (0.99.4) next week

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:22:45 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

Thank you for filing the bug report.

One has to consider that this is mostely a volunteer job, very few people
are actually paid to work on Wireshark. Some of us are active keeping the
infrastructure intact so 'the community' can work on the details of the
program.
So what gets done when is not related to the fact that it's Open Source,
it's related to the volunteer community effort going into this thing.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Brian Vandenberg wrote:

>   I just logged bug 1156.  I'm hoping to get some time to see if I can
> at least help figure out what the cause is, if not find a solution.
>
>   On the topic of releases and bugs that get fixed in a release:
> excepting bugs that need to be fixed (blockers & the like), are bugs
> just fixed if someone decides it sounds like something they could fix or
> want to work on?  Obviously in a company it's someones job to fix
> problems, but where this is opensource it seems like you'd have more
> flexibility, so I'm curious how these things are decided.
>
> -Brian