On Monday 20 March 2006 16:04, Thomas Hood wrote: > It might not be so simple. Suppose I have taken it upon myself to push > change Foo through Debian. The Foo project requires cooperation from > several DDs and at the beginning I can't tell whether I will get that > cooperation from all of them. After having devoted many hours to > project Foo and after the passage of some months I find that progress > is blocked by needed changes to package P. I write to the maintainer > of P but get no reply. After repeating this a few times I (finally!) > get a message from the P maintainer... about his having more important > things to do than deal with my patch.
Alternative conclusion to this saga... I discuss on d-devel if the Foo project is a worthwhile goal and how I've gotten stuck. There is general agreement that Foo is worth pushing for the next release. I ask for a review of/help with my patches to the packages that block progress, deal with the comments that come back and NMU them (after mailing the maintainer one last time). Foo makes it into the next release.
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