unmaintained bugs

[antonio montagnani]

Roger Heflin ha scritto il 25/07/2015 alle 17:54:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>

no, I am not assuming that maintainers are paid, but when you are a 
volunteer you must be honest to you and other people to say when you 
cannot continue to be a volunteer. And the circle is broken when the 
final user reports a bug but nobody seems to be working on it for a long 
time and you have no feedback


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