On 5/30/25 08:52, Thomas Lange wrote:
I saw too many bug reports, that didn't had any reaction from the package maintainer for years. This should be avoided.
The said bug reports are often vague and require significant time investment to figure out and are being judged by the maintainer not to be of high importance to deal with, or discuss, at the moment. Some are subjective attempts to change the way a package is being maintained which is in the realm of maintainers discretion, not up to a novice contributor to decide. Some submitters even use their social connections or shaming tactics to pressure a maintainer into dealing with them. Highly visible packages are more exposed to this kind of bug reports than others thus accumulating the said bug reports in large numbers. How do you avoid this?
Milan
