On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:53:01 +0000 (UTC), Sune Vuorela <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2012-10-17, Svante Signell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Even some bugs _with_ patches are treated the same way or kept open and >> never acted on. Shouldn't the number of open bugs be decreasing with >> time, not being constant or increasing as is the case for some packages? > >in many cases, the amount of open bug reports is more a function of >number of users of a given package, rather than a function of the age of >the package.
And a function of the size of the package. Many packages are a nightmare to maintain just because of sheer size, but I still feel that Debian SHOULD[1] take care of Upstream Bugs as well and not require people to report upstream bugs directly to upstream. >> Might be so, what to do about it? Maybe more team-maintained packages. >> And better procedures for package salvaging, as the current discussion >> thread on salvaging packages shows. > >Neither of those gets *more people* in the teams of core packages. Ack. > - who would like a couple of DDs and a dozen of bug workers for pkg-kde Amen. Greetings Marc [1] in the sense of RFC 2119. -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
