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Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs



On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:32:41PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:55:39AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > 
> >   And btw, help for bug triaging for any of those kind of packages is
> > vastly appreciated... But here is a newsflash: 100 bugs is fairly easy
> > to reduce. the 5 or 600 bugs the KDE team has closed was a year of work.
> > Yes a damn year, during which there has been many upstream releases
> > (getting a release ready is a week of work, plus the RC that always come
> > with them, so you can add another week on top of this one). So please
> > explain me how a team that has had sometimes less of 2 to 3 _actually active_
> > members at a given time do manage to keep up with bugs as well ? I'll
> > tell you: they just don't.
> > 
> >   Sorry to seem pissed, but well, I am. Your mail (and others with the
> > same thoughts) are completely disconnected from reality. Totally.
> > 
> Sorry.  I was arguing for the value of bug triage and communicating with
> submitters.  I still on't think that holding up migration over
> unanswered bugs is a good idea.  Hope that clears things up for you.

  The Debian would have KDE 3.1 (as we couldn't make it with KDE 3.5.5)
and that would be a nightmare as it's now unsupported upstream.


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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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