Re: Please notify the maintainers when removing packages
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:34:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > But is the 'i am devoting all my free time to this other more serious
> > problem' also not a good reason to ignore a minor (but RC) bug in a
> > minor package ?
>
> Sounds like an excellent time to find a new maintainer for the small
> package.
Why ? The problem was punctual, just in the time before the release,
altough i didn't know it was the time before the release, if i remember
well. If it was a chronical problem, i would agree with you though.
Since then, i have well maintained my packages, and i have always
responded to all my bug report within days (within less than 2-3 days,
usually the same day), not everybody does such if you count the number
of unresponded bugreports. And among those that don't care to respond
are many of the important people that are teaching lessons here. If they
don't have time/don't care about a bug report, they should not expect
that the other maintainers go grepping trough useless/badly written
bugscan email to be informed.
And against, i have heard no reason why not to send such mails, just
accusation and self important 'because you are already informed' kind of
things.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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