Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > I don't see why I should not change the severity of a report against a > package I'm not maintaining if the severity looks incorrect and the > maintainance team didn't state anything about the severity. If you were > basing that on something, please let me know.
Consider that changing severities of bug reports is not your business and they are not considered a positive contribution of your own. The release team will lower severities >= serious if they are over-inflated, the maintainer can do so as well. If you believe a severity to be wrong, please state so in the bug log and let the maintainer change it if he wishes and that's it. You make us loose valuable time arguing on severities. I hope you can find some better way of contributing to the Debian project because your current stance on handling bug severities is not very much appreciated. > In any case, considering what you wrote, I'll refrain from changing the > severity of reports against dpkg, which means I will not downgrade this > report even if Kurt does not answer timely. You're not in a position where you can request/expect timely responses. People have the right to ignore you because you're not the maintainer and they don't believe your contributions to be useful. As long as your contributions are NOT backed by some solid technical skills, this won't change. This doesn't apply only to dpkg but also to all Debian packages. If "bug-triager" is something that appeals to you, I'd suggest to concentrate on a single package and cooperate up-front with the maintainer and decide of a strategy to clean up the BTS. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
