Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> writes: > I have now witnessed several cases where a maintainer blatantly > ignored the MRs their package received. It is demotivating to new > aspiring Debian contributors to put in significant effort to learn the > complexities of Debian packaging and submit an improvement, only to > see that the maintainer two months later didn't look at the MR at all, > and instead implemented the same change themselves, and the > submitter's work essentially got wasted.
Maybe submitting the patch to sub...@bugs.debian.org and tag it with +patch could have made some difference? I think at some point we have to consider dropping bugs.debian.org and/or augment with a more modern GitDevOps workflow, maybe based on Salsa, but we are not there yet, at least not in any official standing within Debian. Compare how the Guix community have evolved their bug tracking handling with https://issues.guix.gnu.org/ and https://debbugs.gnu.org/db/pa/lguix.html and https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues with various gateways between e-mail and web-based issue tracking. /Simon
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