On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:04:47AM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs > > > help? WTF ?! > > YES. WE NEED HELP. NOW. > > We are *all* *COMPLETELY UNDERSTAFFED*. > > We are drowning in bug reports and are not able to answer all of them, > > especially old ones dating from the pre-teams era. > > > > Who is not acknowledging such obvious things? > > People heavily involved with Debian know such things, bug submitters that > aren't involved (yet) most likely don't. > > -> asking them to either pitch in or be patient seems a completely > sensible thing to do, it decreases frustration, and for some percentage of > submitters it will be the last little push they need to start getting > involved Ooooh you mean telling all the user base we need help and are overwhelmed like in [0] or [1] ? [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/01/msg00215.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/01/msg00037.html We've seen how good it was for us, at least in the KDE team we got about ... errr... 0 help offers. Could one stop thinking teams packaging large things are as uncommunicative as some core teams in debian ? Actually we do speak our problems out. It's just followed up with a huge silence. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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