El Jueves, 9 de Abril de 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escribió: > Can you think how fast a RFS on the debian-mentors list would > be denied if accompanied by "I won't have time to deal with bugs, please > file them all upstream."?
I maintained two KDE-related packages in Debian, and of course I dealt with the bugs I received. But if I alone had to deal with the huge number of reports that a popular KDE module receives, I could simply not do it. Of course, I could handle the Debian specific problems, or one user from time to time who did a tiny mistake reporting it on Debian's BTS. But not all the users of the package reporting it _on purpose_ as a Debian bug. It would be nice if I could, though, but I don't think that almost anyone could do that on their free time. > I get my OS from one source, the Debian repositories (and initially the > Debian cdimage ftp server). I should only need to provide feedback to one > source: Debian. Come on: nobody reports to their ISP the problems of 3rd party websites. And they don't ask the shop were the bought a Windows box a problem they had with the software. > Maintainers are ultimately responsible for what I receive; > *NOT* upstream. If you don't have enough time to *maintain* the package, > don't even bother packaging it. You just maintain the package, that is, the work you do, and the software you write, not the rest. -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
