Re: Quiet upstreams
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>>
>> Do maintainers generally pass on maintaining things when upstream
>> is shown to be inactive or unresponsive?
>
> depends on the app. I have passed a package to other people
> when the upstream and I could not work together. Other times
> people just fork the app.
>
> Sometimes, if you can join the community involved with the app
> and understand what is going on things become easier. patches
> sent to mailing lists are often taken. I have found that some
> upstreams think my patches are for screw ups in debian and
> taking the patch is unimportant. A few mails to a mailing list
> and it seems everyone else had patched it and just not said
> anything.
OK. I'm more familiar with projects that aren't that popular. A
common complaint is the lack of feedback and Debian can provide
thousands of (generally) clueful people to bang on a program and
provide decent bug reports; patches even, as you mention. I
don't think some authors are aware of this and I guess there is
no reason they would be without being told.
Maybe I'll put something together for a first-contact thing when
asking about packaging. Mention
http://bugs.debian.org/yourpackage for bug checking and
http://packages.debian.org/yourpackage to show how Debian lays out
the display.
Rick
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