Re: NM non-process
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:40:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> writes:
>
> > * Adam Majer
> >
> > | My definition of MIA for DD: Doesn't fix release critical bugs for
> > | his/her package(s) within a week or two and doesn't respond to
> > | direct emails about those bugs.
> >
> > I guess I'm MIA, then, since I have an RC bug which is 156 days (or
> > so) old, which is waiting for upstream to rewrite the program.
>
> Taged forwarded?
When you have maintain a package, shouldn't you be able to fix
it yourself?
IMHO, people should not package or take over a package that they
do not understand how it works. For example, a kernel maintainer
should be a kernel developer. Or a Qt maintainer, should at
least use Qt on dailly basis - preferably both commercially and/or
for free software.
People should maintain packages they are qualified to maintain
and not becuase "it would be neat to package that!".
Sometimes you get really hairy bugs that even qualified
developers would have trouble to fix... then you need to holer
for help until somone helps... Isn't there a tag for
Help Wanted or something?
- Adam
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