Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Be patient. > > We're all busy with other things, and there are plenty of patches still > waiting in the queue. Please don't resend anything. Can I suggest, as a long term goal, having a publically viewable bug tracker / patch queue? At least from my point of view, the current system isn't working very well. If I find a bug in XFree86 (say, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81783, which turned up 5 minutes ago :-), it's frequently not clear how to proceed. Yes, I can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]; b bug report. But in either case it feel like a complete shot in the dark. - I can't check on the status of my bug-report/patch. - I can't give someone else an URL to go to check on the the status. - I can't meaningfully give updates ... sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" saying "you know the patch I sent 2 months ago. Forget it, it turns out to have been faulty hardware" at least seems like it won't work very well. - There isn't any reliable way of telling if/when my bug has been applied. - If the person dealing with the bug report / patch wants to get further information, they have communicate with me privately, and I understand very well that something like bugzilla is considerable amount of sysadmin work to set up and maintain that would take away from someone's hacking. And there simply may not be the resources currently. But for GTK+ and GNOME, we find it an extremely valuable tool to have this stuff public ... not a panacea ... I still get plenty of people annoyed at me for slow response to GTK+ patches, but at least they see a milestone for the bug, and know it hasn't been lost. Regards, Owen (bugzilla has mechanisms for restricted visibility for things like security problems or NDA information, so a public bug tracker doesn't mean that you have to give up all privacy.) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
