Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
So yes, I believe we need to work on the long-term "ignored" bugs. :)
Those are essentially all I work on. It's a good thing I have a thick skin. Some maintainers are genuinely grateful for the assistance, and they're a pleasure to work with. (This includes the X Strike Force, although they are really a bit snowed under and so you have to push a bit to get a bug addressed.) Some maintainers are basically MIA, but won't give up their packages, and they're more annoying, but they usually accede to reality eventually, and are OK to work with. Some few maintainers are obnoxious and anti-helpful. All of these have bugs which have had a patch attached to them for a long time without mantainer comment (not even 'no, this patch doesn't work because X'). However, not all such bugs reflect anti-helpful maintainers; many reflect MIA, busy, or distracted maintainers, so one has to poke them to find out whether one gets a rude reply, no reply, or a "thank you" reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking again. Can't help it on this machine; will try not to post from here again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
