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Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324



On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:28:21AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:32:43 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> [...]
> > Notice that Christoph did close this bug report without even bothering
> > to discuss this, thus taking the decision from the team and into his own
> > hands. Christoph, could you please justify your actions here ? They may
> > be right and all, but if we are going to work out as a team, we need to
> > discuss things.
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> 
> He didn't close it; he tagged in +wontfix.  He mentioned his reasoning
> (the fact that there's userspace graphical boot screens), but it's not
> apparent due to the way the BTS works.  FYI, Christoph, people will
> usually email <bug#>@bugs.debian.org, and BCC control@bugs.debian.org, w/
> that same email body; control@bugs.debian.org processes the commands, and
> sending to <bug#>@bugs.debian.org means the message shows up on the main
> page of the bug report.  I'd also recommend CC'ing
> <bug#>-submitter@bugs.debian.org, so that the original submitter sees the
> update and can respond in a timely fashion.  Don't ask me why the BTS
> doesn't automatically forward responses to the submitter; that would seem
> to be the logic thing to do. :/

Ah, i guess that those new non-debian kernel maintainers should probably
be submitted to the debian NM process, after all, nobody else with such
say on what happens with debian is not.

> If the kernel team disagrees, they can follow up to the bug, change the
> tag, etc.  I can't say I disagree; I quickly scanned the patch, and it
> definitely could've been pared down a bit.

I probably don't disagree, i only disagree with the dictatorial method,
while this was supposed to be a team.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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