Le Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:37:10PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > Allow me to quote from the OP: > > What do people look on the following idea: not allow packages to > migrate from sid to testing if they have unanswered bug reports > with severity >= normal? > > Thus, if you have a package with any unanswered important or normal > bugs, it will not progress. In order to assure propogation, you must > respond rapidly to any bug that is filed with these severities, even > though this has nothing to do with fixing the bug. This is a technical > impedance to a maintainer getting useful work done, like fixing RC > bugs in testing, and as such is not something that I can condone.
Dear all, of course, it would sound reasonable to avoid to build unlearnable systems with complex rules, and I think that the main interest of the proposal is to put unaswered bugs under question. However, in the case there would be something to be implemented, how about adding "priority = low" to the criteria of the packages which will not automatically migrate to testing? The main problem I see with unanswered bugs is that nobody knows what is the message they convey, as each maintainer has his own view on this. Again, there could be technical workarounds, such as adding a X-DD-Message to the control field of package, and let the BTS display them. Then maintainers could explain brifely to the users their workstyle, to avoid misunderstanding and wrong expectations. For the packages which get many bugs reported, there could be mailing lists on which help can be found. For instance, if your package deals with medical or pre-clinical research, do not hesitate to bounce the bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am lurking on the ubuntu-science mailing list, and it seems that they manage to motivate their communauty to do helpful work with the bugs. For instance, it seems quite easy to get an @ubuntu email account when participating to the life of the distribution. Of course, @debian is used for a different purpose, but one could think about similar welcome gifts. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]