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I have also experienced several times that developers have been quite hostile towards bug reports. Even bug reports that I, as a developer, would be quite happy to receive myself. That kind of attitude means you are less inclined to try and help out again, and will most likely dump the product first chance you get.

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Three of the last four bug reports that I've written have been totally ignored. Two were on a google group, so it's possible (but unlikely) that they just drifted off the front page before anyone qualified saw them. The other is just sitting in the issue tracker getting no attention.

I spent a good chunk of time in each case trying to figure out what was causing the problem, and I'm definitely less inclined to go back to those projects now.

Same thing. I found a bug in a drupal module. Even went so far as to develop a patch to correct the problem. The module owners response? He complained about my choice of variable names.

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