discuss: LinuxWorld in San Francisco
Subject:
Re: LinuxWorld in San Francisco
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
19 Sep 2001 22:53:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20010919235121.C25093@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> So the main advantage of a bug-tracking system would be that we could
> find out which maintainers are non-responsive. But what can be done
> about it if we know which maintainers are non-responsive? Not much.
> We already know about docs that are not being kept up-to-date and I
> suspect that most of the cases of "non-responsive" are also
> "out-of-date".
Debian has the same problem, FWIW, with much the same trade-off. The
main utility of a bug tracking system for us in the case where a
maintainer is non-responsive is that, if somebody takes over, the
reports that were sent to the previous maintainer aren't lost.
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
