Re: Senseless Bickering and Overpoliticization
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > outdated when it came out. Our current release has numerous
> > release-critical bugs with little progress.
>
> So instead of starting a thread, how about fixing some RC bugs?
There's more good to be done spending 5 minutes not fixing bugs if it
causes 100 others to fix bugs as well. Even more ironic is that you
are causing me to spend yet more time addressing your message instead
of fixing them, hmm.
> Better idea: how about an "ObBug" thing that lists a bug you've helped
> fix in the last 24 hours?
>
> BTW, what of Bug#42714, Bug#42897, and Bug#42339?
It is indeed ironic that you feel it necessary to resort to personal
attacks in this message. As you may have been aware, I have just gone
through a difficult move and encountered severe Internet access
problems in the process that have hampered my efforts on Debian and
other systems in the past 1.5 months.
> > Boot disks have problems.
>
> So join debian-boot, download the source and start fixing them.
I am not Superman, even if you think I am. There is a limit to what I
can do, between a job, maintaining two dozen packages or so, working
on the alpha port, running an autobuilder, hosting mailing lists for
various Linux-related organizations, etc. I feel that I am more than
sufficiently active in the community and do not need to literally lose
sleep taking on more responsibility simply to justify the point to you.
> > bugs get completely ignored for over 800 days,
>
> While others get dealt with within a couple of days.
That is irrelevant; of course most are not ignored for 800 days but
the fact that some are illustrates a problem with our procedures, and
a serious one at that.
> > and
> > egotistical or power-greedy maintainers are actively compatative with
> > those that submit bugs or try to help.
>
> While others try to remain friendly and helpful even when bug reports
> are miscategorised as `critical' instead of `wishlist', have almost no
> information to help diagnose the problem, are obviously the result of
> user error, or are just irritatingly impolite.
Of course. I did not say that all maintainers are that way. Merely
that enough are to cause serious trouble.
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