Ahmad Khalifa <ah...@khalifa.ws> writes: > Joachim was mislead by an RFH. Even raised an MR and still got ignored. > I replied to an RFH bug, got ignored. Raised an MR and still got ignored > (my MR is only 5 months old, maybe still hope?).
The most common (not the only) reason why packages file an RFH bug, in my experience, is that they are overwhelmed and unable to keep up with the packaging, which unfortunately is the same state that will lead them to not responed to MRs. Unfortunately, often the ideal response to an RFH bug is for an experienced Debian maintainer who wouldn't require much assistance to offer to be co-maintainer directly. It's hard for a newcomer to offer that type of help, through absolutely no fault of the newcomer. Often RFH bugs are not filed until the situation is already dire and the existing maintainers may not be able to mentor newcomers or perform a clean handoff to anyone other than an experienced Debian developer. This is very much not ideal, and I wish this were not the case, but I suspect that means that, at the moment, RFH is more useful as a flag for experienced developers, and newcomers will find it easier to contribute to packages that, paradoxically, are not tagged as needing help. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
