On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> was heard to say: > > I avoided referring to the bug number, or explaining what the bug is about, > > because I don't want the thread to decay into a discussion on wether my > > requested changes are ok or not. > > > > The question is, that if they're not, I'd expect the maintainer to reply > > stating so, instead of pretending to be MIA. And even if he didn't reply, > > he hasn't justified why reverting the changes yet. > > I don't think you can expect prompt responses to every wishlist bug -- > especially if the changes are basically OK but the maintainer doesn't > want to upload them right now (because, for instance, they have no > bearing on sarge and the autobuilders have backed-up queues a mile long > of packages waiting to enter sarge). I disagree. I feel that bug submitters should be able to expect a prompt response to every bug, even if it's just "I got this, and I'll deal with it when I have time" or "This is a low priority right now" or "Please wait until post-sarge". As we've discussed numerous times on this list lately, communication seems to be the only way to avoid misunderstandings, and the ten seconds it takes to reply to a bug is not too much to ask. And just in case you think I'm talking out of my ass, this is exactly what I do with my pile of packages, as well as tracking upstream bugs for my end-users (failure to do so being another one of my pet peeves that I won't get into here). > Obviously these bugs are important to you, but not everyone else will > place them at the same priority level. Which isn't really the point - because there was no way in this case to tell the difference between the bug being low-priority and the maintainer being MIA. (Note that I am not saying the maintainer *was* MIA, I'm saying that I would have no way to know from looking at the bug report.) KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
Attachment:
pgpqDeeOlVJ2A.pgp
Description: PGP signature