Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> writes:
> 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.
Will you sponsor an NMU for util-linux?
It has ~150 bugs collected over the last 5 years, several of those
with patches and some policy violations. Bugs ranging from grave to
whishlist. The Maintainer, though active acording to db.debian.org, is
unresponsive to mails and BTS.
MfG
Goswin
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