Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
>> Maintaining packages should be fun and rewarding too. Punishing people >> for not doing something that we think is important has its place, but >> only sparingly. > Reporting bug should be fun too. Not getting an answer is not very > polite and some users may feel that their bug reports are useless. Sure, which is why I'm all in favor of responding where possible. I just don't want to see us let the best become the enemy of the good or hold maintainers to standards that work fine for small packages but which don't scale to huge ones. Upstream projects frequently have unanswered bugs. This is a problem with all large free software products I've ever been involved with. I'm all for trying to do the right thing, but let's not burn ourselves out or turn on each other over unrealistic standards. If the entire rest of the free software community is struggling with something, we're probably not going to have a silver bullet that's going to make it easy for us, and we should probably be realistic about what we can accomplish. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]