Re: I'm being ignored
Jan Ludewig writes:
> > #34326: memstat: Should add libc5-compat dirs
> > 254 days old
> > An year-old bug with a simple fix, yet nobody bothered to even try it.
> >
> > #40037: bug: long subject lines under gnome-terminal warp to beggining of line
> > when using -f
> > 149 days old
> > I tested it again a few minutes ago; and it worked. I closed it by hand, since
> > it looks like the maintainer neglected to do so.
> stop complaining, start working. you can't expect people to work 24h
> a day just to satisfy you. most of the developers have a job, they
> work 12h a day and then - in the evening or at night - they are
> developing programs to help the community. sending bug-reports is a
> good thing to help them, but if you can fix the bug (you said you
> can do that) you should send the bugfix. you are not a customer who
> pays for the programs, you are someone using software as you are
> _allowed_ to do so.
Well, you miss one point. For some/many packages the BTS is just
useless, because it's not maintained. Debian maintainers are
responsible to keep the BTS up to date. For the first example Cesar
could make a NMU and set the severity to fixed (however he should ask
the maintainer first, wait for the non-reactions and then do the
upload). In the second example Cesar is not allowed to close the
report, because he is neither the maintainer nor the submitter. He set
the severity to fixed, but is not allowed to do more.
> postings like this make me thinking about switching to openbsd, as
> on my experience shows me, that bsd-users are not this
> "you-have-to-do-this-as-it-is- you duty"-like. they've understand
> the meaning of _community_ much better than a lot of linux-users
> (including you).
But it _is_ the duty of the package maintainer to document the current
state of a package. An outdated BTS is bad publicity for Debian.
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