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Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs



* Reid Priedhorsky (reid@reidster.net) wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:10:12 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >
> > Now, the iceape case is interesting: *you* (as in, the one complaining
> > about rotting bugs) are also allowed to help the maintainers instead of
> > whining. *That* would help. For example, these three packages I have
> > listed in this mail, they really need bug triaging help. And no, that
> > doesn't mean we don't care about our packages nor our users.
> 
> But, users don't know you care unless you tell them, and (IMO)
> acknowledging bugs (each and every one of them) is a great way to tell
> them that you do.

We do our best, but the volume is pretty enormous. This is also free
software, users are not a captive audience, it should be drilled into
them that they can participate.

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