Adam Jackson wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 02:04 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
Hello,
With Rahul, we prepared a new pollicy which aim is to force maintainers
to answer to easy fix bugs or orphan packages if they fail to do so in a
one month delay. It may look a bit rude, but hopefully it will help
spreading co-maintainership and quicker bugfixes. It is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/CollectiveMaintenance
In my opinion it should be added to the non responsive policy at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers
I paste it here. Please comment. It should be proposed to FESCo after
discussion here.
The problem with this policy is it assumes people read bug mail. If I
read all my bug mail every day, I would get absolutely nothing else
accomplished.
Exactly, heck I don't own that many packages, but when I wake up in the
morning, there is a combination of 100-200 emails at times, composing of
mostly bugmail, mailing lists that I feel are too important to filter,
or I have forgotten to filter, and spam, I skim through it all, see
nothing important (i.e. nothing that looks interesting, or from the
redhat bugzilla) continue with my plans for the day and login to
bugzilla get to the 'frontpage.cgi' (which imo is damn useful) and go
"what the, when was THAT bug reported" and notice that it was slipped in
the middle of a batch of gnome bugs.
So please give maintainers a break from fearing of missing an 'easy
bug', we make mistakes (honest), we miss things, we forget to tell
people that the reason why the bug isn't fixed is because we are working
on getting brand new version y packaged that'd fix it better than a one
line patch, heck, we are humans!
- Nigel
So, just to head this off ahead of time: Every package owned by
xgl-maint that I know of has cvsextras+ set. If there's a trivial bug
in one of these packages, please, by all means, fix it. If you find an
X package where this is not the case, please let me know.
I'll even go one step further. If you're sufficiently interested in X
and/or Mesa and _want_ to sign up for the xgl-maint mail deluge, please
let me know! I'd totally love you forever.
- ajax
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