Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs
Hi all,
On Do, 21 Feb 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> I am barely keeping up with *new* bugreports and updating the packages, keeping them buildable, backporting fixes from upstream etc.
We from the Debian TeX Team have a very similar problem. There are about
300 bugs taken over from teTeX times into the TeX Live packages.
Our team consists of a few DD and few helpers, but of all I am currently
the only actually active one (and I myself am on permanent quasi VAC
till May).
I try to keep up with new bugs and fixing them, but there is NO way I
will *ever* find time to go through 300 bugs taken over from tetex.
I was (and am) tempted to do something similar, because I consider this
pile of dust^Wbugs just obscurring the important things. I consider
currently:
- severity = important -> fit for my time investment
- severity >= serious -> trying to fix immediately
- severity <= normal -> let them rod
That is the reality. Now and then I try to fix new bugs of sevrerity
normal or wishlist, but that's it.
The problem with most bugs are that submitters do not care at all to
- try to find a solution themselves
- read other bug reports
- use google
- read the policy
- think
Sounds harsh, but that is the reality, unfortunately.
Have a lot of fun, and when I am back from the mountains expect some bug
triaging from TeX Live packages ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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