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Re: Forwarding bugs upstream



On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> But in this case I don't think we should be "expecting" maintainers to
> necessarily shepherd bug reports upstream.  I don't think a maintainer
> who fails to do so is failing in their job as maintainer.
>
> The maintainer should decide whether they think doing that is a useful
> thing to be doing for that package or that bug, and communicate this
> decision to the user (and set the bug state accordingly).

Maybe some tools (PTS) should warn about bugs that are older than X
days and are still unclassified?

Olaf


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