On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:41:44PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:02 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am just wondering if you would care to give any particular reason to your > > "wontfix" tag ? That conclusion to that bug report is maybe a bit terse, > > don't > > you think ? Not at all what an unsuspecting reader of our BTS is in his > > right > > to expect. > > > Certainly, my dear Sven. > > We're all volunteers and we give our time to this project because we > love to do so. I personally put effort into maintaining dpkg because I > enjoy the unique challenge the code represents, and get a great deal of > satisfaction from it. > > > However, not just as volunteers, but as human beings, we deserve the > right to be able to give our time without fear or intimidation from > others. > > The language Marc used in his reply was both rude and aggressive. This > intimidated me into treating his bug differently from the other 400-odd > equal-status bugs currently filed against dpkg. > > > I have a right to work without that intimidation, therefore I declined > to fix the bug or enter any further discourse about it. > > Fortunately Santiago is an excellent moderator, and provided Marc > listens to him, I'm willing to ignore his behaviour and go back to > considering this just any bug.
Well, a bug without any reply for over 3 month is some cause for someone maybe loosing his calm, he is clearly a volunteer like you, and a fellow contributor to debian. All the remarks that apply to you which you justly gave above, also apply to him, and leaving a bug report about something that clearly affects the progress of his work on debian/hurd, is also somewhat rude don't you think ? Also, think of the other inocent bystanders. I personally believe, as maintainer, that it is my duty to provide at least an acknowledgement in a relative quick time after each bug report against my packages, but then i understand not everyone seems to think this is so. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
