Hi all,
I'm taking this reply off the bug tracker since this isn't related to
the bug.
Ulli Horlacher via RT wrote:
I cannot see if the mail is coming from a maintainer or a user.
I thought RT-replies are always from the maintainers?
There is only a very fine line between a maintainer and a user when it
comes to PAR. And this is coming from both a maintainer AND a user :)
I'm more than half-serious. Roderich has been doing an incredible job at
helping people, fixing bugs, and generally keeping the ball rolling for
quite a while now. Some time back, I was doing a lot of that. Maybe in a
half year, it'll be you or somebody else entirely?
The reason I'm putting it this way is because there's no explicit nor
implied responsibility of maintaining the software. That's why the term
maintainer, though not entirely wrong, may be misleading. Anybody fixing
bugs is making a donation of his time.
The difference between the mailing list and the bug tracker is that in
the latter, issues should be kept fairly separated. Otherwise it becomes
extremely annoying to try and find out what the actual issue was and how
it could be fixed.
I'm not saying the following is the case here, but let me add that in
general, bug reports which are really help requests from users can
become fairly problematic from a maintainer point of view. That's what
the mailing list is for.
Best regards,
Steffen
