Fixing a FTBFS bug - unresponsive maintainer

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:45:34 +0200, JL (Johannes) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> there is a pretty easy to fix FTBFS bug but the maintainer doesn't 
> really react on anything.
> Does anyone knows how to contact him through other channels? I know that 
> he's present in some fedora irc channels as 'SmootherFrOgZ' but didn't 
> receive a reply there either.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631372
> 
> Perhaps a provenpackager could have a look at this and add this one line 
> to fix the bug.
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> Johannes

Are you a Fedora Packager yet? The proper fix would be for you to
request 'commit' access to the package,

  http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/tilda
   -> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/tilda

and there is a series of tickets that have not been replied to yet
either.

A provenpackager jumping in for just one FTBFS would be a short-term
solution only. It would not fix the problem of packages being
unmaintained and bugzilla tickets being ignored.