This is from the perspective of a non-DD systems administrator. While most maintainers are good. Some are pretty lousy with regard to addressing issue even when one is proactive about finding a solution.
On Monday 26 February 2007 14:55, Don Armstrong wrote: > I don't believe any maintainer of > packages, given enough hours in the day, would fail to respond to > reasonable bug reports. I don't agree with this statement. I have dealt with some maintainers that refuse to acknowledge a bug when I report it. At the worst, the maintainer makes some wild assumption and code dumps a new revision of their package. That action causes me to have to totally work around their packages to make things work. The aoetools package is a fine example of this phenomenon. I have to completely override what that package does with it's init script to get my aoe devices working. [1] is a good example of a maintainer refusing to acknowledge any level of my trying to help find a solution for a bug. Paraphrased, the maintainers response was it won't work, with no interest in my use case (that of using block storage hosted on a network like aoe or iscsi), even when I tried to produce some fixed that worked for me. I have had to write initramfs-tools scripts and shutdown scripts to work around the package. These scripts live at [2]. I am interested in getting a more robust framework for this type of storage integrated into Debian so that AOE and ISCSI storage can be used more effectively, but when I bring it up, I just get a the-maintainer-is-right slap down, and the maintainer has no interest. I even provided some prototype scripts to get my use case working. The aoetools are in such bad shape that they can't even be used with the ocfs2tools (same maintainer) without a lot of manual work. As another data point, [3] could be fixed with my initramfs-tools scripts. I am sure that the scripts are not generic enough to go in unchanged, but a little respect from the maintainer, and maybe some help getting this use case working would be appreciated. Also, that same maintainer has been downright insulting, which doesn't make me want to help out at all. [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387552 [2]http://penguintechs.org/~wt/debian/aoe_stuff/aoe-block.tar [3]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408044 wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
