On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:34:14 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:04:45 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:17:53 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > > > Yes, I could thus discover the members of this secret cabal who > > > corrects data in the tracker, but stays behind the curtains and does > > > not reply on [email protected] !! ;-) > > > > it's no secret; it is (at least for me at least) a matter of laziness. > > why spend time on a follow-up email when the info is already publicly > > available? > > I think that threads (reporting a tracker inconsistency) on this > mailing list should be somehow closed with a confirmation that the > problem has been dealt with. > Otherwise someone else could think "I'll fix this up" and waste his/her > time in looking at the tracker and saying to him/herself "mmmh, but > this seems to be already OK..."
there are already multiple resources available that likely prevent this: the -commits mailing list and the svn log are good indicators. > It's something like closing bug reports, I would say. > That's why I follow up myself, when I notice that the problem has been > fixed, but no reply has been sent to the list... > It's kinda weird, I admit, and that's why I began joking about > it... ;-) we try to fix up issues mentioned here as soon as we can, and i don't know of anything slipping through the cracks for long periods of time. if something does get overlooked, just send a reminder after a couple days. thanks, mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
