OK, everything is clear. This is what I have learned in just two days on the list for new maintainers:
a) as the maintainer, you do not have to do anything, it is enough to wait for patches arriving directly to your mailbox, and your job may be easily limited to acknowledge of existence of a bug, b) you must use words: hate, bullshit, etc. in all discussions - it solves the problem by eliminating the other part from the discuss, they are usually emotionally weaker, c) if you are loyal to the rest of debian members, you are immune to critique and always can claim that the other part of discuss is not doing _your_ job, although they could, d) you should maintain as many packages as you can, it looks much better when you show off. It will be also much easier to apply for a renowned position of DD, when you will be recommended, that you are taking care of packages alpha, beta, gamma, delta, ..., zeta, nX, e) you should take care at the beginning, when it is interesting and new, later, when you are well established, passivity is preferred, at least you do not have any troubles with b) In such conditions, it should absolutely not be a surprise, there are bugs waiting for years, and the maintainer still has his job: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516394 we just need to wait and be patient. What mean thousand days if we compare it to eternity? Nothing. Two days, and I have learned everything needed to be a good maintainer, it is a really an outstanding school! Welcome on-board. S. PS thanks for few normal comments. I am not against anyone, I just think I should treat my commitment seriously. Not more, not less. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPRDrAHtfxZQdTCha6qraCUv8br_WbeJBi_8=n45hmycj6e...@mail.gmail.com
