Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/26/07 01:27, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > [Frankly, if you're concerned about whether someone has seen your
> > mail, surely the ack from the BTS is sufficent. Anything else
> > requires someone to actually do the work.]
>
> Does the BTS ack *mean* that an actual living breathing human has
> eyeballed the bug?
It means that actual living breathing humans have been sent the bug.
Nothing that has been discussed in this thread necessarily means that
an actual human being has done anything, as it's trivial to write an
automated response bot for maintainers for every bug.
The goal appears to be to have bugs responded to instantly by
maintainers and fixed rapidly. While that's a very laudable goal,
technical impedances to a maintainer actually getting useful and
important work done is not the way to do that. People who are
concerned about package's jumping in and responding themselves is the
way to do that.
Don Armstrong
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