Am 21.11.2011 23:50, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote:
+1
nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced from release to relase while th eonly response is from bugzapper about EOL of the release
Well, that's not the same problem as this thread is about.
There a very active packagers (and developers who also do packaging tasks) who don't respond to [all] tickets due to various reasons. Some of the reasons are valid. Become a package maintainer yourself, Harald, before you judge about them all.
i do not judge!
in my opinion there is no reason to not respond respond can be negative with a short "why" well, this would be much more helpful as bugzapper-mails
it is a hughe difference if you give no feedback to anyone who took the time to make a bugreport or ignore it
if the respponse is "sorry no time yet" is would be much morehelpful than no response at all
I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages.
yes - and bugzapper-messages should be sorted out to find inactive maintainers - i do not say that every ignored report is a inactive maintainer but it is a possible sign
we all know that nothing will be perfect now or in future but give users the feeling that they are not ignored is a high value