Re: maintainer not responding
Andrei,
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Vi, 06 aug 10, 12:36:17, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
>> Patrick,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Ouellette <pat@flying-gecko.net> wrote:
>> > I think you may be missing the poing a bit. A 'TODO' list is nice,
>> > but what is stopping YOU from forwarding the information to upstream
>> > or checking the upstream project to see if they know about the issue?
>> >
>>
>> What was stopping me was the assumption that forwarding bugs could
>> only be done by a maintainer. But it makes sense that there is no reason
>> why I could not discuss these bugs with the upstream authors and report back.
>
> Bugs can be manipulated by anyone, not just the maintainer.
>
>> > What SPECIFIC package(s) in the list do YOU use, and what SPECIFIC
>> > issues are YOU having?
>> >
>> > I'm not saying all the bugs don't need to be addressed, but it is a
>> > lot easier to motivate people when someone has a specific need rather
>> > than picking a developer's package set and complaining about every one
>> > of the packages with a bug report.
>> >
>>
>> I should focus my efforts on a micro rather than a macro level.
>>
>> > Again I ask YOU what efforts have YOU made to contact the maintainer?
>>
>> I have not attempted to contact the maintainer in any way other than through
>> bug reports. And the bug reports as well as these messages are sent to the
>> email for the maintainer. Is there some other method I should use?
>
> Your "quest" seems directed towards a particular Maintainer. My guess is
> you are probably more familiar with the packages on you own machine. Try
> rc-alert and/or wnpp-alert (finding the package containing these is left
> as an exercise to the potential contributor).
I never knew about those programs but they look great for finding bugs
relevant to
my system. Great tip!
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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