Bug#274677: wontfix ?
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:41:44PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:02 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > I am just wondering if you would care to give any particular reason to your
> > "wontfix" tag ? That conclusion to that bug report is maybe a bit terse, don't
> > you think ? Not at all what an unsuspecting reader of our BTS is in his right
> > to expect.
> >
> Certainly, my dear Sven.
>
> We're all volunteers and we give our time to this project because we
> love to do so. I personally put effort into maintaining dpkg because I
> enjoy the unique challenge the code represents, and get a great deal of
> satisfaction from it.
>
>
> However, not just as volunteers, but as human beings, we deserve the
> right to be able to give our time without fear or intimidation from
> others.
>
> The language Marc used in his reply was both rude and aggressive. This
> intimidated me into treating his bug differently from the other 400-odd
> equal-status bugs currently filed against dpkg.
>
>
> I have a right to work without that intimidation, therefore I declined
> to fix the bug or enter any further discourse about it.
>
> Fortunately Santiago is an excellent moderator, and provided Marc
> listens to him, I'm willing to ignore his behaviour and go back to
> considering this just any bug.
Well, a bug without any reply for over 3 month is some cause for someone maybe
loosing his calm, he is clearly a volunteer like you, and a fellow contributor
to debian. All the remarks that apply to you which you justly gave above, also
apply to him, and leaving a bug report about something that clearly affects
the progress of his work on debian/hurd, is also somewhat rude don't you think ?
Also, think of the other inocent bystanders.
I personally believe, as maintainer, that it is my duty to provide at least an
acknowledgement in a relative quick time after each bug report against my
packages, but then i understand not everyone seems to think this is so.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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