On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > But if they do refuse, then to what extent is that person > accomplishing the maintainer role?
To the greatest extent they can, which is what all of us do. I don't believe any maintainer is going to stand in the way of anyone who wants to help triage their bugs and manage reporting them upstream. I believe everyone thinks that having any bugs which are not personally handled is suboptimal, but we are limited by person-hours; every maintainer that I have personally spoken to about this issue who has to ask for users to forward the bugs themselves would gladly accept assistance from someone to do it for them. I personally would love to see patches to the BTS to enable forwarding these kinds of bug reports to upstreams more easily and integrate everything tightly with the BTS. Unfortunately, I am perpetually short of time to implement them myself, as excellent as I am certain they would be. Don Armstrong -- All my dreams came true. I just didn't think them through. -- a softer world #388 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=388 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110113035555.gk5...@teltox.donarmstrong.com