Re: I'm being ignored
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 01:48:58PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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.
You missed two points as well. I'm not a Debian maintainer, and I _am_ the
original submitter for both bug reports!!!
I could close, but I chose to let the maintainer do so... I wanted to let the
bug there to affect his karma =)
Oh, looks like you checked the bug report to see I didn't really close it...
But how did you fail to notice the submitter name?
> > 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 An outdated BTS is bad publicity for Debian.
And that was what I was ranting about... The second bug _was already fixed_ but
nobody bothered to check! If it weren't for me wanting to help with the bug
squahing party checking my old bugs, it would stay there forever.
BTW, the right thing to do with the second bug would be to ask the user if it
was already fixed.
At least someone understood my rant ;-)
--
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@web4u.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br
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