On Monday 26 February 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > The goal appears to be to have bugs responded to instantly by > maintainers and fixed rapidly.
No, very wrong: - bugs don't need instant response, they need reasonably timely response (say within 2 weeks on average) - BUT, _if_ no triage on the bug is gonna be forthcoming any time soon, I think it's reasonable to at least tell the submitter so, and give some indication as to why. This doesn't have to be more then a few lines (and as a maintainers todo is constant on any given moment it, he can sent the same few lines to all his up-till-now ignored bugs). Would it be hard to add functionallity to the BTS that e-mails the maintainer once every week with a list of bugs for his packages that have been unanswered for 2 weeks or more? If such a mail had the reply-to set to include all those bugs, the maintainer would only have to hit reply and compose a short mail indicating why bug handling doesn't have priority ATM (or that he needs help cause he can't keep up with the influx of bugs). I think composing 1 email each week or so wouldn't be overly much to ask of maintainers, and it would solve the problem nicely IMO -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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