On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:08:19PM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote:
> 
> Red Hat engineers have seemingly not responded to bug reports I filed,
> even those with patches supplied.  There are a number of RFEs for
> packages I would like to see included, especially Webmin, and there is
> no action there either.
> 

Don't worry too much about non-response, if the issue is tracked it is
just sitting in the priority queue waiting to reach the top (query for
the developer's other bugs to get a *rough* estimate of queue length
keeping in mind there are non-bug tasks also). There's often not much
a developer can say to a bug until they have time to look at it in
detail.

Feature requests in particular have to go through product management
and there's a whole process for that, so developers typically aren't
going to be able to respond quickly.

Also keep in mind that bug hacking peaks during the beta period and
falls of sharply following a release as many engineers shift gears to
feature work.

Re: webmin, my impression is that it has no chance, nobody wants to
sign up to do the potentially enormous number of security errata.
Even aside from that the amount of maintenance work to keep the
modules in sync with the OS would be large, based on past experience
with linuxconf and other config tools.

nano presumably does not present this issue.

Havoc



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