2009/6/26 Angel Velásquez <an...@archlinux.com.ve>: > Sometimes the maintainer in this case is a Dev or a TU, and eventually > they are full of work and they doesn't reply the emails or let the > packages out of date or with bugs (in the AUR history *this* fact is > happening), what should do the user in this case?: > > 1.- send an email to the ml? --> will be ignored by everypeople. (and > probably the maintainer, and plus force the user to subscribe to the > ml, maybe the user isn't a packager, just an user reporting anything > like "this package shouldn't depend on bla bla") > 2.- "open a bug report", come on dude, not every people will register > to the bt to fill a bug report, maybe if one account will work for > everything, but this is not the case. > 3.- Open a bbs thread (pfff hehee .. I just will laugh about it) > 4.- IRC? (why if maintainer isn't active on that?) > > And plus, sometimes Comments helps the maintainer of a package a LOT. > > So, this discussion is irrelevant, please when you do an upgrade you > don't remove features at least these are unuseful, and reading this > thread, more people are agree to keep the comments. > > Thanks > I already replied to these many times.
Do you know of another project that enables user comments? I know of none. Yet they seem to get by fine with mailing lists, IRC channels, and personal emails. Anyway: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15265 -- Greg