In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: >Without having evaluated null hypotheses or done exhaustive analyses, >the correlation nevertheless seems fairly convincing. To put it bluntly, >our regular package maintainers are doing such a bad job that without >significant assistance from NMUs, about 6% of the archive fails to meet >even our _absolute minimum_ expectations. > >That's bad. > >It would be bad even if the 6% was random junk that no one uses or cares >about, or was a bunch of packages that were so complicated no one knows >how to fix them, which is probably what you're thinking. Unfortunately, >it's even worse than that. Consider the following examples:
I really think you should look at the activity on a bug as well. If there's a grave bug filed against a package, see if there's any reply from the maintainer in that bug report. Sure, a grave bug might be open for a month, and if the maintainer ignores it that is very bad, but if there's an active discussion going on on the relevant [EMAIL PROTECTED] address you can't say the maintainer is ignoring it. Just my EUR .02 Mike.
