On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:17:09PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Recently I have to mail a package maintainer personally because a (trivial) > patch I submitted to fix segfault in his package was in BTS since November > and still not applied. I got a reply in several hours. I see this fact as a > proof that mail reminders are effective, at least sometimes and for some > people.
But did you notice how your personal mail was much more effective than the automated mail the BTS had sent about the bug? People learn to filter out automated mail :) The bugscan lists seem much less effective now than when they started. This might be because they're not eagerly being annotated anymore, though. Richard Braakman