Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 06 aug 10, 12:36:17, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: Patrick, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net wrote: I think you may be missing the poing a bit.  A 'TODO' list is nice, but what is stopping YOU from forwarding the information to upstream or

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-09 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
Andrei, On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 12:36:17, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: Patrick, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net wrote: I think you may be missing the poing a bit.  A 'TODO' list is

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I thank your efforts but I have to remind you that you need to find right way to make change in Debian. None of us are paid to be full time. There are many loose ends. Reporting to wrong ML is not the best action. What you are telling us is: 1. packages maintained by

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I think you may be missing the poing a bit. A 'TODO' list is nice, but what is stopping YOU from forwarding the information to upstream or checking the upstream project to see if they know about the issue? What SPECIFIC package(s) in the list do YOU use, and what SPECIFIC issues are YOU having?

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-06 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
Patrick, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net wrote: I think you may be missing the poing a bit.  A 'TODO' list is nice, but what is stopping YOU from forwarding the information to upstream or checking the upstream project to see if they know about the issue?

maintainer not responding

2010-08-05 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
debian-user list, Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours volunteers have contributed. But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports they are responsible for? Specifically I am interested in these bugs: [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-05 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:10:49PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: debian-user list, Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours volunteers have contributed. But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports they are responsible for? Specifically

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote: But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports they are responsible for? Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just need a response like I don't have time to fix these bugs, could

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-05 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
I will look in to the bugs in more detail and see what exactly needs to be done. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: * 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote: But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports

Re: maintainer not responding

2010-08-05 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: * 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote: But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug reports they are responsible for? Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just need a response like I don't have