How about a triage process that pokes maintainers? I have a few bugs that appear to be ignored by maintainers, despite all the necessary information being provided: - radiusclient-ng - BZ 236350 Nothing happened for over 9 months, then I supplied the one-line fix (to the Fedora-specific patch), and (after another month) packages went to updates-testing, where they've been for another two months. - hal-info - BZ 425875 I found what amounts to a typo (my system listed in a comment but not in the actual config) and got no response. After a month, I went upstream (created an upstream BZ account, etc.), and it was fixed there. It appears a newer hal-info will be in F9, but a month after I reported the fix in RH BZ, there's no sign of an update for F8. There has never been a response from anybody in RH BZ. - hal - BZ 425876 hal is required for NetworkManager, but they both have startup priority 98. Changing the system LC_COLLATE to anything that cares about case breaks startup; hal should probably be below 98. I guess upstart is supposed to fix all this, but when? Again, never a response from a maintainer in BZ. At least if no change will be made, say so and close the bug. - system-config-network - BZ 429725 This one a s-c-n developer jumped in quickly and provided a patch in short order (and the fix is in s-c-n git). I verified it fixed the problem, but there's no sign of an actual update for F8 two months later. I don't want to get automated triage emails about any of these after they've been idle for months or years. NEEDINFO does not apply (at least as far as I can tell - nobody has asked for any more info anyway). Any email alerts for these need to go to the maintainers, not the reporters. I understand people are busy (I never get done all I'd like to), but why should I report bugs, research and supply fixes, when still nothing happens? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
