Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> > An accepted way to help maintainers is to send patches into BTS that
> > fixes the reported problem, and tag the bug 'patch'.  This way one can
> > provide solutions for the maintainer to consider, and save them lots
> > of time.
>
>
> Which obviously DOES NOT WORK.
> Just look at all the patches in the BTS that are realy easy to
> integrate, are usefull and are still not used by the maintainer.

This is SIMPLY NOT TRUE in my experience. It may take some time but
most of the bugs I report get fixed within reasonable time. If I
attach a patch this speeds up things most of the time. For example the
d-i people are happy about most of the patches submitted.

If an obviously good an correct patch does not get applied, why not
prepare an updated package yourself an ask for a sponsor for an NMU, 
explaining all the reasons for this uncommon action. I hope you will 
find someone willing to do the upload if there are good reasons. Did 
someone ever try this? I did not see any such request on debian-mentors.

gaudenz