Re: Release update
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:15:42PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> OK, so I started making an analysis of the RC bugs.
>>
>> (1) There are an awful lot of simple Depends/Build-Depends bugs.
>> Maintainers, look at your packages, and if you have one of these, fix and
>> upload it now. Other people: if these sit around for a long time, it's a
>> sign that the maintainer isn't doing his job -- but NMU the package if
>> you can.
>>
>> (2) There are a large number of RC bugs filed in Februrary. I think
>> maintainers probably mostly need to be given a bit more time on these, so
>> I didn't look at them further.
>>
>> (3) There are a fair number of packages which have bugs with no
>> maintainer
>> comment for over a month. This is not good. Maintainers: take a look at
>> your bugs! QA: there may be some more needed forcible orphanings in
>> here.
>> These are just the ones I noticed; I may have missed some. Also, I only
>> got to the letter d before wearing out.
>>
> [...]
>> diasce2
> [...]
>
> Looking at it this week.
>
> BTW, you have to take into account that people usually have real life
> issues that don't make them devote as much time to Debian as they'd
> like.
I quote from above:
>> (2) There are a large number of RC bugs filed in Februrary. I think
>> maintainers probably mostly need to be given a bit more time on these, so
>> I didn't look at them further.
:-)
Asking for a *comment* after a month is not unreasonable IMNSHO -- I'm not
asking that the bugs actually be *fixed* after a month!
--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
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