On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:04:04AM -0400, Jim Gallacher wrote: > Nicolas Lehuen wrote: > >I don't understand why those guys > >aren't posting their patches on the mod_python mailing list. > I was wondering the same thing. What would be better for us, subscribing > to a bunch of mailing lists or contacting the maintainers directly and > telling them we are interested in having them forward their bug reports > and patches (and then hoping they do)?
With Debian it is generally understood that the Debian users should report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System and the package maintainer forwards them to the upstream if the issue is not Debian-specific. Since the mentioned bug is 162 days old in Debian, I should have monitored the bug and as an original submitter I should have taken the issue upstream myself bypassing the package maintainer. Propably the most common reasons why this communication does not happen is that people forget or do not have time (and plan to do it later). > Having some contact with them directly is probably a good idea anyway. > Subscribing to a bunch of mailing lists could result in a lot of > uninteresting mail. ;) I think it would be unfair to expect that upstream developers track all the major distributions. > But first let's have a show of hands. How many people monitoring either > of the mod_python or python-dev mailing lists are package maintainers > for a distribution? I do monitor and I do know Debian packaging but I am not an official developer nor do I maintain official Debian packages.
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