On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 10:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
There have always been components with a large number of bugzilla
tickets without a response, but Fedora has turned it into a "man
versus machine" competition. Which is unfortunate. First of all,
those automated responses come _much_ too late. After months, most
users have lost patience and have given up. And for the patient
users, the second time somebody gets an automated response that only
threatens with closing a ticket _again_, it will be a "WTF?" moment
and raise motivation to look for a different OS.
Automation is not a bad thing, but there ought to be a clear message
that tells people about the expectations to get a response on the way
to a potential fix or _how_ they could contribute.
I too have had bugs that were ignored over several releases (and the
fault remained). The only activity seemed to have been waiting to see
if the next distro release fixed it. Not even questioning me to try
and find more information to fix things. It seemed like the package
maintainer was not really in a position to debug things.
Only when I had been able to work out that a particular file was
missing, or some other thing where I could determine the fault, but not
actually do the repair, was anything done about the bug.
Perhaps there should be an automated culling of participants. If you
step up the plate to say you'll maintain a package, but don't, *you*
get dumped from bugzilla.
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