Re: maintainer not responding

Andrei,

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Vi, 06 aug 10, 12:36:17, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
Patrick,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Ouellette <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think you may be missing the poing a bit.  A 'TODO' list is nice,
but what is stopping YOU from forwarding the information to upstream
or checking the upstream project to see if they know about the issue?


What was stopping me was the assumption that forwarding bugs could
only be done by a maintainer.  But it makes sense that there is no reason
why I could not discuss these bugs with the upstream authors and report back.

Bugs can be manipulated by anyone, not just the maintainer.

What SPECIFIC package(s) in the list do YOU use, and what SPECIFIC
issues are YOU having?

I'm not saying all the bugs don't need to be addressed, but it is a
lot easier to motivate people when someone has a specific need rather
than picking a developer's package set and complaining about every one
of the packages with a bug report.


I should focus my efforts on a micro rather than a macro level.

Again I ask YOU what efforts have YOU made to contact the maintainer?

I have not attempted to contact the maintainer in any way other than through
bug reports.  And the bug reports as well as these messages are sent to the
email for the maintainer.  Is there some other method I should use?

Your "quest" seems directed towards a particular Maintainer. My guess is
you are probably more familiar with the packages on you own machine. Try
rc-alert and/or wnpp-alert (finding the package containing these is left
as an exercise to the potential contributor).

I never knew about those programs but they look great for finding bugs
relevant to
my system. Great tip!


Regards,
Andrei
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