Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:41:57PM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote:
> This is from the perspective of a non-DD systems administrator. While most
> maintainers are good. Some are pretty lousy with regard to addressing issue
> even when one is proactive about finding a solution.
>
> On Monday 26 February 2007 14:55, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > I don't believe any maintainer of
> > packages, given enough hours in the day, would fail to respond to
> > reasonable bug reports.
>
> I don't agree with this statement. I have dealt with some maintainers that
> refuse to acknowledge a bug when I report it. At the worst, the maintainer
> makes some wild assumption and code dumps a new revision of their package.
> That action causes me to have to totally work around their packages to make
> things work.
>
> The aoetools package is a fine example of this phenomenon. I have to
> completely override what that package does with it's init script to get my
> aoe devices working. [1] is a good example of a maintainer refusing to
> acknowledge any level of my trying to help find a solution for a bug.
In all fairness, you didn't seem to comment on his response to your
suggestion. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387552;msg=30;att=0).
This seems to be more of a case of not liking his solution than having a
legitimate grievance?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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