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Re: Lack of replies



On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 02:18:41PM -0600, Steven Robbins wrote:
> Antonio Russo wrote:
> 
> > As someone who would like to participate more in the development of Debian,
> > my personal experience is that making contributions is like dropping a 
> > message in a bottle into the sea.  It feels like a complete crap-shot 
> > whether I'll even receive a comment on any code contribution (including 
> > debian-devel RFS, salsa MR, or BTS patch).
> 
> For salsa and BTS, one reason for lack of reply can be that the maintainer is 
> never notified.  I get surprised sometimes that salsa has merge requests 
> waiting for me.  I suspect that either the email notification is broken or off 
> by default and I never saw instructions to enable it.
It is off by default unless that was changed recently-ish.

> In the case of the BTS: it used to email me but that broke a couple years ago 
> and apparently it is hard to fix.  So currently a class of us don't get email 
> from any bug reports.
What is that class?


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