On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You and others are most welcome to take a stab at the 1000 open bugs > > against the official kdepackages. > > "You and others" cannot substitute for a response *from the package > maintainer* acknowledging (or otherwise) the bug report. That's the > criterion being discussed here: not a resolution for the reported > bug, but rather a first response from the package maintainer to the > bug report, to acknowledge that it has not been ignored.
There's nothing magical at all about the package maintainer. Anyone can respond to any of these bugs with more information that clarifies what the actual bug is, patches, and other information. Package maintainers are ultimately responsible for the bugs in their packages, but they can't possibly respond to them all. [Frankly, if you're concerned about whether someone has seen your mail, surely the ack from the BTS is sufficent. Anything else requires someone to actually do the work.] Don Armstrong -- Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
