Me:
[In the hypothetical case] I write to the maintainer
of P but get no reply. After repeating this a few times I (finally!)
get a message from the P maintainer... about his having more important
things to do than deal with my patch. [...]
Frans Pop:
Alternative conclusion to this saga...
Russ Allbery wrote:
Whenever this topic comes up on debian-devel, the conversation seems to
focus on the small minority of maintainers who don't respond to bugs, are
still active on their packages, resist any attempt at co-maintainership,
and can't be dealt with through the MIA process.
Yes,
On Monday 20 March 2006 16:04, Thomas Hood wrote:
It might not be so simple. Suppose I have taken it upon myself to push
change Foo through Debian. The Foo project requires cooperation from
several DDs and at the beginning I can't tell whether I will get that
cooperation from all of them.
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:29:18AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote:
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-19 08:06]:
The question is if the problems with the patches and the reason for not
applying it will be commented, thus giving the author a chance to modify it,
or change his approach
[Sven Luther]
I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all
patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary
politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a patch
or bug report when it is submitted.
I believe you are wrong. If you are
On 3/19/06, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Sven Luther]
I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all
patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary
politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a patch
or bug report
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Sven Luther]
I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all
patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary
politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a patch
or
[Olaf van der Spek]
So what do you think about long-term ignored bug reports? Do you
think that should not be considered any issue/problem?
It is definitely something we should try to address. When I run into
those myself for issues that are important to me, I try to contact the
maintainer,
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I believe you are wrong. If you are right, then I am a very impolite
maintainer, as I have too many packages with too many bugs to look
after, so I do not manage to look at, nor
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