-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:01:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for > > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say 1 or 2 months ] and ping > > the maintainer to remind them if they forget to 'release often'? > > I can't imagine a maintainer not being aware of bugs which they have > fixed and have marked pending unless they had insane numbers of > packages. I know that I personally would discard such a set of > automated messages. > > That said, if it was opt-in or some sort of utility that a developer > could run in a cronjob, someone may want it and it wouldn't be > offensive to those of us who do not. [I think it's also appropriate > for users who are affected by a bug to request that the developer > release a fixed package, but that's done manually, not in an automated > fashion.] The other idea was for a simple .../pending page on the bts so that folks could quickly see what is about to be fixed. - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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