On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:43:59PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > > It should not be necessary. The Bug Meister should respond within > > a week, either asking for more information, or informing you of > > the issue number. (ideally with a direct link, but a simple > > "thanks, added as 1234" is also ok) > > > > Of course, as with everything else in open source projects, the > > Bug Meister position is a volunteer job, so we take what we can > > get. If anybody thinks they can do a better job than the current > > person (including any of my jobs), I would encourage them to offer > > to take over the work. Or at least to work as an assistant. > > A response time of a week is a sign that the mechanism is not > working out.
We *don't* have a response time of a week. Currently the only person who has shown the slightest bit of interest doing this job does it an average of once every two weeks. > Things like weeding out duplicates can happen at a > slower time span. It is also possible to put a bug into a > database with a state "pending", "unverified" or similar. That > gives a better impression than a black hole. I do not agree with making the issue tracker open to everybody. We'll get tons of uninformed users posting non-bugs. > The results are not encouraging to contributors. Maybe you didn't notice the above note. I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANYBODY TO OFFER TO HELP WITH THE WORK. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
