Hi, Peter: On Friday 14 January 2011 10:29:57 Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Jesús M. Navarro] > > > If any, bugs you (properly) pass to the upstream developer are bugs > > that will cost you not a dime of your valuable time from them on. > > You didn't read the rest of the thread, did you?
Yes I did. And I stay with what I said. It seems that passing info around is wasting the maintainer's time because (so I assume, since there's no indication implying otherwise) he is just acting as a man-in-the-middle. Once he is able to reproduce the bug himself then he is not acting as the maintainer in front of the upstream developer but as end user with a bug in his hands. If that's not the case, well, I already stated what should be done (basically, close the bug as "non reproducible here"). You did read the rest of the thread, did you? > > If you understand what I said, good; if you didn't, please, make me > > the honour of considering me as an authority and act accordingly > > No. Whatever. > > If you don't like our parties, you are free not to come here. In > > other words: if you find Bacula to be too hard a package to deal with > > you are free to orphan it. > > Why is it that none of the people who keep calling for everyone to > orphan their packages because they're not taking on enough of what a > maintainer is supposed to do, seem to be stepping up to maintain, > co-maintain, or otherwise help out with these packages that are > apparently so poorly maintained? Because, for whatever reason, they (me) are not debian developers, therefore they didn't make their issue to maintain, co-maintain or otherwise help out with these packages. Those opting to be or in fact being debian developers do it. That said, asking for help prior to orphan a package its maintainer is not up to properly cope with by himself is certainly a valuable option. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101141132.48667.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
