On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Andree<[email protected]> wrote:
> i. if you can't deal with a bug, tell somebody who can. Leaving it to rot > is going to drive users away. Leaving bugs to rot happens everywhere, in various upstreams, in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and probably other distributions. There just are not enough free software developers in existence to perform all of the needed maintenance on each and every free software project in existence. > ii. make package owners explicit. Just assigning package responsibilities > for > all packages to some opaque mailing list evidently does not work. The > list gets my upstream maintainer updates to the bug, yet nobody cares. IIRC Ubuntu universe specifically works the opposite way and I'm unsure if Ubuntu have enough universe developers to change this. > I'm not going to ferret up all possible downstreams. One tool that makes that easier is 'whohas': http://www.philippwesche.org/200811/whohas/intro.html I've personally used it with both upstream and Debian hats on and was very happy to find that it exists. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
