Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs
Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> Honestly, this would kill almost any larger package.
> You sound like it would not make the maintainers care more about
> their bugs and start answering them.
I think that's a very valid concern.
One of the things that one has to be a little careful about in a volunteer
project is beating people with a giant stick whenever anything isn't
happening that we want to have happen. Testing propagation and hence
presence in the next release is a pretty big stick. Sometimes beating
people with a giant stick gets them to do something, but more often it
creates resentment and then even less work, particularly when the stick is
not obviously correlated to the problem.
Maintaining packages should be fun and rewarding too. Punishing people
for not doing something that we think is important has its place, but only
sparingly.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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