On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:53:20PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed February 20 2008 3:43:18 pm Ben Finney wrote: > > Who other than the bug reporter would you suggest should try > > reproducing the bug? > > > > Suggesting "put that effort into fixing the bugs" is presuming that > > the prospective bug fixer knows *which* bugs are worth the effort. If > > the bug reporter is unresponsive, the bug is unlikely to be resolved > > anyway because it can't be confirmed fixed. > > > > > > What would you put in place of triage? > > I think that the point is that triage should happen at *submission* time, not > so long later. > > I have learned that certain well-known packages (OpenOffice, say) are bug > blackholes. I submit a bug, and never hear anything from Debian maintainers > except for periodic triage stuff when a new upstream comes out.
I can't speak for anyone else, but in the case of aptitude, I have just about enough free time to keep up with bugs. The problem is that I sometimes want to spend my free time on other things, such as hanging out with my girlfriend, enjoying the outdoors, cleaning my apartment, etc. And of course if I ever do anything related to the project that's not strictly bug-fixing (say, writing new code, improving documentation, or writing messages to mailing lists like I'm doing right now), I also fall behind. Oh, and fixing bugs that are nontrivial? That makes me fall behind too if the bug takes more than a few hours to fix. I know this makes me a sucky maintainer [0], but I simply don't have more time and energy than I have. I'm totally in awe of people who can hold down a full-time job, have a personal life, and still devote tons of time to Debian and be uber-maintainers. I don't know how they manage it. Daniel [0] http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp/log/posts/aptitude_upload_not_something_to_be_proud_of.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]