Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 19:20 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > I'm perhaps a little more optimist, thinking that volunteers will catch the > bugs even if they > are not the official maintainer. > But I'm afraid that declaring that a bug catcher becomes a package maintainer > will prevent anyone to get so > engaged... and let the number of bugs increase !
That would be nice if it was not in fact already tried at Mandriva since years. First, the main problem is that we do not really know if something is unmaintained or not, because the maintainer db information mean nothing in practice since that's by design. Several people had the impression that contribs was low quality, due to bugs, and lack of reaction from maintainer. Which is indeed a consequence of having no maintainer for some packages. No matter how you spin it, "this is not taken care of" sound bad. So we tried enough the policy of optimism. Enough to know that in the end, it just result in more problems, and it doesn't solve much. -- Michael Scherer
