On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Them not having answered bugs on the bugtracking list, does not make > it okay to skip attempting to contact them directly.
What's considered directly then? I don't know maintainers e-mail addresses and I assume the contact form on their package pages goes to the same address as listed for Mantis? Or doesn't it? > It does not sound like you have fully "contacted everyone". Peter F > would seem to be proof of that. Peter is not owner of any of the packages in the Perl project. > When you wish to take over a package, emailing the general maintainers > list, is not an acceptible as "attempting to contact the maintainer" > either. > > It's fine as a first attempt, for a multi-package effort. But it does > not count as, "well i attempted to contact them and didnt get a > reply". Again, we didn't want to take over any packages, we filed bugs against them because we wanted help doing them. Not receiving that we did the work to be able to finish the project. -- /peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
