Denis Leroy wrote:
Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Some package owners are just way, way overloaded.
>> Recieving more email telling me I'm not looking at bugs isn't going
>> to make
>> me look at more bugs any more than dealing with dozens of "Is anyone
>> looking
>> at my bug?" bugmails.
>
> The way out is recuiting more package owners... is there some place
> where
> one (sh|c)ould apply? Some "overseeing newbie owners" structure in
> place? Some means of a package owner having a hill full of gnomes
> doing the
> footwork?
A better solution in some cases is to file the bug directly upstream.
Not all package maintainers have the technical skills to debug a
complex problem and cough up a complex patch, a lot of times all the
maintainer is doing is forwarding the bug upstream.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2006-December/001119.html