On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say 1 or 2 months ] and ping > the maintainer to remind them if they forget to 'release often'?
I can't imagine a maintainer not being aware of bugs which they have fixed and have marked pending unless they had insane numbers of packages. I know that I personally would discard such a set of automated messages. That said, if it was opt-in or some sort of utility that a developer could run in a cronjob, someone may want it and it wouldn't be offensive to those of us who do not. [I think it's also appropriate for users who are affected by a bug to request that the developer release a fixed package, but that's done manually, not in an automated fashion.] Don Armstrong -- "The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything" -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
