Comment Re:How it is supposed to work.... (Score 4, Informative) 142
I've tried this with several FOSS projects, but I am not a developer, I'm a system admin and blue-team hacker. I noticed the bug, tested and trouble-shot the bug, traced it through and figured out a fix for the bug, submitted the PR and the bug report simultaneously, but the PR ended up gathering cobwebs because I didn't do the other eighteen things the developer wanted before they'd look at the PR.
Again, I am not a developer. I don't know how to write unit tests and I don't have time to read all the documentation to figure out how to sign my code (Which goes through Github, not e-mail), so a requirement of having said unit tests meant my PR sat, unnoticed. Some of the bugs in some projects have been fixed by others who were able to check all the boxes and get their PR accepted, which was the same as mine but bigger and fixed two bugs instead of the one I had. Other projects still have the same bug (Oldest is 3 years old now) but radio silence from their developers. For one project, I had to move away from it, for others I've written work-arounds, which I hate but keep it from filling up the drive with deleted logs, or crashing when exhausting memory.