Christian Kurz wrote: > Well what is the problem with this? I don't see any offence in getting a > message that says that I (the maintainer) has still open bug over a > certain age. I think this is a good reminder for the maintainers as you > may forget to fix bugs. Take a look at the ppp-package and how many open > bugs there have been. The maintainer hadn't fixed them and so I helped > him. (Sorry Phil, but this is a good example and No, I don't want to > praise me with this). Or have you taken a look at the list on > http://master.debian.org/~ajt/bugsbyage.txt? Have you seen how many open > old bugs we got? How do you think we get this fixed without reminding > the developers of their open bugs?
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the BTS has a web interface. It even has seperate pages listing all bugs owned by a maintainer. Most web browsers have bookmark machanisms. I'll let you figure the rest out for yourself. -- see shy jo