unmaintained bugs

[Roger Heflin]

You are assuming that the maintainers are employed/paid to maintain
that project.  In quite a number of cases they are not paid for it, so
given that you may or may not get it fixed.   And if I was a volunteer
for a project and my "supervisor" started harassing me, then you would
need a new maintainer for that project.   Remember they are not being
paid and you are not paying for the product.  Even when one has an
expensive paid support contract getting some things fix is still often
impossible/difficult and in that case there is some limited contract
requirements for the support organization to help you.

Remember most of the less used parts are volunteers they may or may
not have time to fix the bug.   I have fixed a few bugs that were in
stuff that I used and that I was pretty sure there was no paid person
to maintain.  I submitted the fix/patch back to fedora and they fairly
quickly put that patch into an update.   This is how open source
generally can work, others see the bug, figure out the fix and submit
the fix.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:02 AM, antonio montagnani
<antonio.montagnani at alice.it> wrote:
> Chris Murphy ha scritto il 24/07/2015 alle 16:47:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Matthew Miller
>> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:36:05AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> * If a package maintainer appears to be totally unresponsive to bug
>>>>> reports, follow the process here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
>>>>
>>>> and when you contact him, you get the answer not to contact him on
>>>> his personal mail (that is the same as in bugzilla)???
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers#Notes_for_invalid_email_addresses
>>
>>
>> responsive |riˈspänsiv|
>> adjective
>> 1 reacting quickly and positively
>>
>> I'd say a maintainer who responds to an email saying not to contact
>> him on that email, is non-responsive.
>>
>>
>
> I find really silly that when you are encharged of a bug, there is no kind
> of supervisor checking if you are are working on it and any problem
> arising....Imagine it at Nasa, ehi guy, I have no time to check your bug and
> don't bother me :-)
>
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