Busy work

2011-02-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Just now, I got a notification about a bug I filed two and a half years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pmount/+bug/237361 It's a trivial man page formatting bug. In the last two and a half years, it has twice received the attentions of Ubuntu developers. Once, two months after I

Re: Busy work

2011-02-04 Thread Brian Murray
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:44:55PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: Just now, I got a notification about a bug I filed two and a half years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pmount/+bug/237361 It's a trivial man page formatting bug. In the last two and a half years, it has twice

Re: Busy work

2011-02-04 Thread Akkana Peck
Reuben Thomas writes: In the last two and a half years, it has twice received the attentions of Ubuntu developers. Once, two months after I filed it; once, just now. Each time the developer changed some tags. [ ... ] it's 30s of editing. Arguably, my bad for not providing a patch; but again,

Re: Busy work

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Coulson
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:22 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: it's 30s of editing. Arguably, my bad for not providing a patch; but again, I thought that would be a waste of time, because it would take longer for me to produce a patch, be sure that it was clean, and applied to the latest version

Re: Busy work

2011-02-04 Thread Clint Byrum
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:22 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: Reuben Thomas writes: In the last two and a half years, it has twice received the attentions of Ubuntu developers. Once, two months after I filed it; once, just now. Each time the developer changed some tags. [ ... ] it's 30s of