On Sat, 07 May 2011 15:08:37 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > But I agree that this policy should not force maintainers of several > packages to ping their bug logs every 7 days, although at the very > minimum I do expect a maintainer to post to an RC bug log at least once > an "I'm on it" message.
Ack, I've also read the "no reaction within 7 days" as "no short mail to the BTS withing the first seven days". > I've proposed before, for this change, to stress > that the NMUer should do a best effort attempt to verify whether the > maintainer is working on the fix, for instance by looking at VCS head of > the package, asking on IRC, or the like. I'd prefer to narrow this down to visible activity in the bug report; if we have to hunt down maintainers on all possible and impossible channgles, that doesn't scale ... > Finally, considering this policy has been in effect for 5 years or so, > and considering that devref states guidelines rather than hard rules, I > believe the _practical_ impact of this change would be very low. /me nods. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - PGP/GPG key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Die Tontauben: Father of Night
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