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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