&gt; <i>this not-a-real-bug got a correction in just a few days without even being in the bug tracker, while there are real bugs stalled for years in the tracker</i><p>That&#x27;s survivorship bias talking. How many blog posts and attempted noise never make any mark?<p>Better idea: file a bug <i>and</i> write the blog post. Yes, you won&#x27;t always get all your issues looked at, but that&#x27;s true of all major open source projects.