Ian Jackson wrote:
If you and your allies have enough time and knowledge to help with the
package, then yes, you can certainly help with this.
You could write to the maintainers:
I notice you closed my bug without comment, so I went to take a look
at the rest of the bugs for gnomovision. You do indeed seem to
have a bit of a bug overflow crisis.
I asked Alice for help; we took a look at the list and you'll see we
have followed up with triage or status changes to a few of the open
bugs which had the most obvious next steps.
Please let us know whether this was useful. Would you like us to
carry on with some of the less obvious bugs ? For example:
#739130 probably needs to be reassigned to splurge-piper
#739312 looks like a mips toolchain bug, will RFH to the mips porters
...
I have to agree with Chris - that approach wouldn't help the maintainer,
but harm him.
That being said, if some overoptimistic contributors choose that way, or
- hopefully - rather triage as standard practice, please don't
(directly) write a mail to the maintainers that way. Once you triaged
the easy cases, just write to the harder tickets. That way your
contribution won't be lost... especially if the maintainer is set to
hindrance mode.
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