Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:42:53AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Maybe uploads should be restricted to cases where the maintainer is > unresponsive. A bug could be taged as game_done and after some time a > NMU could be allowed. Ah, that's where I wanted to get. If there's a month to get the st

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:12:41AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:24:48AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Well, if with "touching" you mean NMU'ing right away to score a point, I > > > wouldn't call it "possitive". > > That's why new bugs are assigned only once a mont

Bug#158533: project: qmail is installed on murphy

2002-09-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:17:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Indeed, whether you, or I, personally find qmail to be > inferior or not is only tangentially significant. The only opinion > that matters here is of the people who actually work to administer > and maintain the Debian mai

Bug#158533: project: qmail is installed on murphy

2002-09-02 Thread Raul Miller
> That's bullshit, and you know it. There are over 10,000 > instances in debian where we have taken software, created a patch, > applied it, and distributed the binaries. You asked the question about qmail, not about debian. I answered in that context. -- Raul

Bug#158533: project: qmail is installed on murphy

2002-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:57:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Cost has little to do with free as the DFSG defines it, so >> this is a bit of a red herring. May one distribute modified versions >> of the software? May one distrib

Bug#158533: project: qmail is installed on murphy

2002-09-02 Thread Raul Miller
"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raul> [2] qmail is always redistributed at no or very-low cost and > Raul> almost always in source form. Source can be retained > Raul> indefinitely, and can be redistributed indefinitely. On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:57:01PM -0500, Manoj Sriva

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please consider http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BehavioralEffectOfMetrics. > > > > Especially following section: > > > > | As JimCoplien has been saying for years (repeating an old adage), > > | "What gets measured gets done." Measure the Severity A bug rep

Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:24:48AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Well, if with "touching" you mean NMU'ing right away to score a point, I > > > wouldn't call it "possitive". > > That's why new bugs are assigned only once a month, though. Players