Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [030412 13:05]:
> You've got the release-critical bug list, which is a good place to
> start.
Not really. Most bugs need much knowledge of debian (or the policy),
or work on non-i386-platforms, or a recompilation, or mixed. For the
last two things it's very much easier if you are a debian maintainer,
because you can use the debian machine pool. And the last can only be
done by the maintainer or with a NMU (but you must also be a
maintainer to do that).
> I think the right answer nowadays is to help other developers with their
> work for a while and then ask them if they're willing to advocate. If
> somebody had been sending me lots of more-or-less-working patches for
> things I hadn't had time to fix and then sent me a quiet mail asking me
> if I'd advocate their NM application, I'd almost certainly say yes. I'm
> much less likely to say yes when people pop up out of the blue.
Well, that's a reason for making fixes for packages you maintain. ;-)
Andi
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