Re: [bug #37411] Diagonal matrix attribution error and diag function bugs

[Jacob Dawid]

2012/9/21 Paul Soderlind <address@hidden>:
> Users report bugs to hopefully get them fixed, but also to contribute to the
> Octave project. That sense of helping the community is quickly ruined if the
> reply is that you have to pay: money is a delicate issue in a collaborative
> effort like Octave.
>
> I can well see that developers could ask for payment to fix issues that are
> (a) not important and (b) tricky to fix. But, the developer has to explain
> that in a polite manner to the user - and give an offer (before the work is
> done). This is not the same as asking for payment for work that is already
> done, at least not in terms of attitude.

Did you read the comments? Jordi did not ask for the work he had done
already, but he said that he spent six hours himself on fixing it and
found the problem (which means that there is a real chance to fix it)
and that fixing it so that it doesn't break the API requires even more
time. He did not ask to pay him for the time already spent.