Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?
On 19/12/16 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>
>> Is there any easy way to contact everybody who made a bug report against
>> a package and ask them to check if the latest upload fixes it? Or is
>> there any script for maintainers to do this?
>
> I would expect the majority of your users observed the bug on an
> (often production) system running jessie or older stable.
>
> It is not possible for such users to try random packages from unstable.
>
Well, if it really deserves to graduate from unstable to the next stable
release, somebody is going to have to test it sooner or later.
Hopefully sooner. In my own environment I observed that NFS on jessie
was less reliable than on wheezy.
>> If somebody has opened 2 ore more bugs maybe they may prefer to only
>> receive a single email summarizing all their bugs for that package.
>>
>> For example, nfs-utils has over 100 active bug reports and although I
>> spent some time updating it I'm not keen to go through all the bugs one
>> by one.
>> ...
>
> Are you fully committed to spend time debugging every problem where
> a user confirmed that it is still present?
>
I don't think I ever promised that. However, if users confirm problems
that should really be release critical, then that gives the release team
greater visibility about which packages are really ready going into the
freeze.
> It might take a user hours (or even days) to verify whether a problem is
> still present.
>
> It would be a very evil if a user would spend effort after such an
> email, but the next he hears from the maintainer would be another
> such request to try the then-latest version a year later.
>
I hope the people who try things will engage with the community as a
whole (including upstream) and not only rely on a single maintainer.
Regards,
Daniel
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