Re: Dealing with ITS abuse (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-04-06, Filipus Klutiero chea...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a /good/ way in absolute terms, but it's pretty much the only way for now, so I guess it's currently the best way (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/11/msg00030.html ). My experience with contacting owner@bugs,

Re: Dealing with ITS abuse (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, April 06, 2013 19:55:08, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for being faithful to our project and bringing up this topic :-S Chris Knadle wrote: From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has sent (whether intended or not) is I'm not even going to

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 apr 13, 17:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Starting off with a maintainer that closes my bug report with no explanation at all? How do I join the team, when the team refuses to communicate? Why would I make another bigger offer my time, when the team doesn't offer theirs even when

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, April 07, 2013 03:40:02, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 02 apr 13, 17:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Starting off with a maintainer that closes my bug report with no explanation at all? How do I join the team, when the team refuses to communicate? Why would I make another bigger

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-06 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 23:50:10 Russ Allbery escribió: [snip] I do think that debian-mentors helps a great deal here, not just in helping people with their problems but in modeling a social interaction style for people who are new to the project. It is, by and large, quite polite and

Secrecy of member expulsions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
[Moving this to -project] Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 05:37:18PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Technically the DAM has the ability to act to remove a DD (per Debian Constitution 8.1 item 2), but the information I can gather so far seems to indicate that the DAM won't

Dealing with ITS abuse (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Chris, thanks for being faithful to our project and bringing up this topic :-S Chris Knadle wrote: From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has sent (whether intended or not) is I'm not even going to dignify this with a response. *click* It's not /only/ this

Purpose of tickets (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] To reiterate: the purpose of bug reports is to help improve the software. In Debian, the maintainer(s) are in charge of deciding (in the first instance) what counts as an improvement, and which improvements are most important. But they are also in charge of

Closing due to too many bugs (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Ian Jackson wrote: [...] Of course we do need bug reports to be able to tell what's wrong so that we know what to fix. But many packages have so many bug reports that there is already not enough time to deal with them all thoroughly. In that case it is better to cherry-pick the ones which seem

I rid you of some of your bugs; please fix mine? (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-06 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Ian Jackson wrote: If you and your allies have enough time and knowledge to help with the package, then yes, you can certainly help with this. You could write to the maintainers: I notice you closed my bug without comment, so I went to take a look at the rest of the bugs for gnomovision.

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Knadle
(Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: […] Of course if a maintainer inappropriately adopts such an aggressive approach to bug triage when it isn't necessary, you can appeal to the Technical Committee. I doubt

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery (Cc to owner@bugs, M-F-T to -project.) Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the maintainer about telling the submitter

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery (Cc to owner@bugs, M-F-T to -project.) Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 03.04.2013 06:09, Chris Knadle wrote: On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 20:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that we already did do something about it by deprecating close in the BTS in favor of sending a real email message to -done that is copied to the submitter. The Debian BTS now nags the

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's problem. ... No, I don't agree with this. I understand that this reteoric helps explain

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: From the point of view of the bug reporter, the message the DD has sent (whether intended or not) is I'm not even going to dignify this with a response. *click* It's not /only/ this rudeness that's the problem, though; the bug reporter has

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 09:40:50, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: The purpose of a bug report is not to help solve the submitter's problem. ... No, I don't

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
I'm going to move this fully onto -project, since we're into the voting phase and I think this is more of a general project discussion at this point. Hope that doesn't lose anyone. Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: Good question. I can say this: Debian's BTS is the only bug

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like this: - bug reporter: writes polite and detailed bug report - maintainer : *cloeses bug* without discussion (usually within

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): ... If in this situation there is a possibility of the submitter's experience being turned into an improvement in the software, it could arise if the submitter ... can investigate further themselves (perhaps

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 02-04-13 19:53, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like this: - bug reporter: writes polite and detailed bug report - maintainer : *cloeses bug* without

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Chris Knadle
I'm on the -project list, so no need to CC me directly. (Fine if you do, though.) On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 13:53:24, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?): The #1 kind of bug reports that become problems are ones that go like

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: Seriously, what I'm trying to do is lower the number of cases which cause frustration and which don't get any traction. Between the *close* problem, the maintainers that are MIA without the package being orphaned, maintainers dropping working

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-04-02 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 20:34:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: Seriously, what I'm trying to do is lower the number of cases which cause frustration and which don't get any traction. Between the *close* problem, the maintainers that are MIA without

Re: Poor BTS interactions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-04-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: On 2013-03-28 16:35, Don Armstrong wrote: ow...@bugs.debian.org is an appropriate place to report abusive behavior by anyone (maintainers, users, etc) on the BTS. But how broad a definition of abusive behaviour are you taking here? I would have

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 18:35:40, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Chris Knadle wrote: As a bug reporter dealing with a misbehaving maintainer, this is what I would want: 1. A clear place to report the misbehavior ow...@bugs.debian.org is an appropriate place to report

Poor BTS interactions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-03-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply that bug report handling is not something we should look into improving. It's the causation relationship between that and the decreasing number of bug reports which seems unlikely to me. I think it is likely a real factor,

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-29 Thread Don Armstrong
This message appears to be more appropriate for -project, non-candidate responses, please follow up there. On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Chris Knadle wrote: As a bug reporter dealing with a misbehaving maintainer, this is what I would want: 1. A clear place to report the misbehavior

Poor BTS interactions (Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?)

2013-03-29 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-28 16:35, Don Armstrong wrote: ow...@bugs.debian.org is an appropriate place to report abusive behavior by anyone (maintainers, users, etc) on the BTS. But how broad a definition of abusive behaviour are you taking here? I would have thought of contacting ow...@bugs.debian.org in

Re: [all candidates] Removing or limiting DD rights?

2013-03-29 Thread Chris Knadle
Don -- my apologies for not responding to this earlier; somehow I missed this message, and figured out I had missed it via reading Moray's resonse to it. On Thursday, March 28, 2013 18:35:40, Don Armstrong wrote: This message appears to be more appropriate for -project, non-candidate