On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:27 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
What is releng supposed to do here though? We can't be experts in every package. How are we to know that the negative karma is really appropriately negative, or bad negative, or just misfiled or confused users? That's what the maintainer is for.
Let's be honest, though, practically speaking - in most cases - you wouldn't need to be. All the examples of 'incorrect' negative karma that Josh gave as the 'biggest' are ones that a generalist can usually recognize quite well. And if it's one you can't confidently decide about - get the maintainer in. It's better to be right than to be fast, isn't it?