I think that crucial problem with Ryan (as seen by me), that he doesn't communicate a lot. I almost start to think that he is some mystical figure which was thought out by some developers. Well I found some mails in 1999-2003 from him in archive (but last was in 2003/12), so he prolly really exists :-D. Some communication problems can be found back in 2001 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/msg00929.html), (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/07/msg00108.html), but he did replied after all (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/msg00949.html), but that has not happened lately :-(. And I think that is the main problem. Maybe he has some idea how to maintain his packages, but going out and talking with other DD will help. You can defend him as much as you want, but there IS problem with Ryan. I am not judging where the problem exactly is, but I have not seen so much complaints on any other DD and his packages (in debian-devel list). And those are just two packages esound and gdm. O. On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 18:17 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:50:20AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'm seeking advice on dealing with uncooperative maintainers. > > It takes two to cooperate. -- Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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