Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_ime.usp.br)
Date: 12/01/04

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    On Nov 27 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
    > I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer,
    > but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a
    > serious way.

    Actually, I think that there are quite a lot of maintainers being
    unresponsive to users's bug reports.

    Unfortunately, the maintainer of vrms seems to be another one. Just go look
    at the number of bugs (with patches *included*) that he has and that are
    *way* *more* than 6 months old. And some of the bugs are quite trivial to
    fix, sincerely (or to, at least, work around).

    The same can be said about many other maintainers.

    Simply packing some software and dropping it on the repository isn't what
    being a Debian Developer is meant to be, IMVH and uninformed O.

    Anyway, I have already merged some bugs on the BTS, but I myself can't do
    much. I would invite other users to help with this. Perhaps this way the
    bug count will drop and the maintainers will give up maintaining their
    packages, leaving room for some new blood.

    And, most important of all, keeping up the quality of Debian.

    Rantingly yours, Rogério Brito.

    P.S.: It should be said, though, that while some developers are missing in
    action, others are devoting quite some of their time to the project. For
    instance, the guys maintaining Gnome, the guys maintaining OOo, the XSF,
    the tetex-maint team and the guys working having Free Java in Debian. kudos
    to you all.

    P.S.2: I'm not subscribed to debian-devel, but I think that this subject is
    pertinent there also, which is why I'm Cc'ing the list. 

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