Re: [Debian account] I request your attention
Le Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:57:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
[ much work to do ]
> Good help is hard to find, especially when you have to hope for someone
> to volunteer their free time instead of being able to pay them. It can
> be and often is much, much harder than just fixing the problem yourself.
> Getting bad help can be worse than just leaving stuff broken.
>
> It's the responsibility of Debian volunteers to do the best they can,
> for as long as they want to, and to avoid getting in the way of others.
> If they can no longer do anything, or no longer want to, it's the
> responsibility of those that *do* still care, and can still do anything
> about it to do so.
No, no, it's difficult to find that a package is no more maintained
especially when not many people use it. It's the work of the debian
maintainer to let the other know that can't maintain it anymore.
It's the work a maintainer to seek for help for RCB when they can't fix
them themselves.
See Debian Developers Reference Chapter 3.
> But right now, we've got /way/ more problems than people. If you want
> to help, try attacking some of the problems, rather than making life
> harder for the people.
It's not making life harder. It's just making life easier for those who
want to help but don't know that they can help on this area.
Because we are volunteers you can't force us to work on any of the issues
you listed, it's up to each one to decide what he prefers to do. :-)
Cheers,
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