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Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs



On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:04:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 20:36:21 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > I have to completely disagree here.  When I started in earnest with the
> > effort to clean up the sasl package, I literally spent three twelve hour
> > days in a row doing nothing but bug triage.  I really am not surprised
> > that people had not offered to help previously.  There were bugs which
> > had been unanswered for months or years.  And that was for a package
> > with only ~100 bugs.  When we finally uploaded the new version, it
> > closed something like 38 bugs.
> > 
> > IOW, having the packages bugs properly organized and triaged is critical
> > to knowing what you are fixing with each upload.
> > 
> And I prefer spending my time fixing real bugs or packaging new releases
> which fix real bugs than replying to every single bug report and not
> fixing any. I don't have time to do both. But YMMV.

  Did you knew that there is a 2 month probation time when you just
became a DD ? You've just stated (4 days before that period is off) that
you are a very bad developer. I hereby think that you should be expelled
in retaliation.


Cheers,
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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