"Thijs Kinkhorst" <[email protected]> writes: > I dare to disagree on the serving almost no point. I do agree that > filing such a thing is not a panacea and not likely to attract a new > maintainer just because of the simple fact that you filed the bug.
> However, from time to time when I had a problem with a specific package, > and I saw the bug in question tagged help or the entire package marked > RFH (this is clearly displayed in the PTS). This was an indication for > me that putting work into the package, preparing an upload to fix the > problems that were bothering me, would be acceptable for the maintainer > and that I could do that right now. Lacking such an RFH I would probably > have started out by sending something to the BTS and wait a while for > maintainer response. So it does serve some purpose in flagging to > passers-by: "by all means, please do what you can to improve this > package". That's a really good point. Thank you. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
