Bug#247312: konqueror: opening of bookmarks is much slower when clicking directly on Bookmarks menu
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Jesús Roncero Franco wrote:
> > Done what? Forwarded it to KDE people and tagged the bug as upstream,
> > you mean?
> > Simply because I'm not a Debian developper myself, just a simple user,
> > and mostly because the Debian way of doing things (correct me if I'm wrong)
> > offers the possibility to report bugs to Debian and let the package
> > maintainers deal with them whether they are Debian-specific or not.
> Ok, this bitter answer demonstrates that you don't know how things work here
> (at leat in debian KDE).
> To put it straight, there's not enought people and not enought time.
I'm absolutely not supposed to know that...
> > But until that change is decided/done, if some Debian maintainers are
> > unable to do this tagging and forwarding within a decent amount of time,
> > they should really be considered as failling to do their maintainer's
> > job properly, ok?
> Hervé, this is a "job" done in our spare time. You know, we all study/work and
> usually have some other life to attend, as you might have as well. So be a
> little bit more understanding.
Of course I can undertand that. But a problem remains: from the user
point of view, the only visible part is an application that enables to
report bugs, and a Web interface showing how this bug is dealt with.
In this particular case, all an external user like me can see is that
such an elementary task remained without any concrete action for 7
months, so there is a problem.
If maintainers are so overbooked that they cannot even afford to process
a whole kind of things, at least they should let the bug reporters
know, so they are _aware_ of this fact, and maybe they can try to deal
with things themselves (with upstream, here) if they can, trying
_consciously_ not to overload maintainers a bit more.
But until you let them know (and I know, you're to busy to even let
them know ;-)... too much time is stupidly wasted.
> > Especially since doing such a minor thing would require so little
> > of their time compared with the average Debian user, as they are supposed
> Sometimes, what you think it's going to take little time, is in fact a very
> time consuming task. Some other time, there's so many bugs one can't deal
> with them all, etc.
Solution: take 1 minute per bug you feel you won't be able to process
before long, and let the bug reporter know you probably won't deal with
it soon. Please don't tell me none of you can do that.
I know you all do only what you can (and that you're probably doing a
good job for what to have the time to catch up), but let's face and handle
resource shortage a bit better, please.
Hervé
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