John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we should devote some thought to declaring a permanent > bug-squashing party and relaxing the rules for NMUs (for instance, let > them happen for any documented bug of any severity so long as they are > uploaded to the 5-day delayed queue and patches are posted to the BTS > at the time of the upload). One small step down that road, anyway.
What does "documented" mean here? Filed in the BTS? Very often the maintainer has a much better understanding of a particular problem than the random bystander because of his experience with the code, his privileged relation with upstream or his own research of the problem prior to replying to the submitter. Assuming that the problem has received no attention because the maintainer hasn't replied to the bug in the BTS is a mistake. Personally, I don't send messages every five minutes to the bug log saying "hey, neat, I can reproduce it", then "cool, I see where the problem is", then "I might have a patch but it's a quick fix, I'm trying to come up with a better one", etc. -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
