On Sun, 4 May 2014 16:33:08 +0200, Bas Wijnen <wij...@debian.org> wrote: >On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >I don't think this is very clear from the guidelines, and I have had mixed >> >responses from maintainers when reporting upstream bugs, varying from >> >"thanks, >> >I'll report it upstream for you" to "stop wasting my time, report it >> >upstream >> >instead". >> >> While I find the latter reaction a nuisance, I understand that >> maintainers of huge packages with an understaffed maintainer team tend >> to do that. The situation is less than nice, but I'd rather see >> maintainers' time spent on packaging in those cases. > >Yes, I can understand that maintainers set their priorities; I do that myself >as well. The problem I have with the latter is not that I should report it >upstream (it's not ideal, but understandable), but the "stop wasting my time" >part, which implies that I'm wrong to send reports about upstream bugs to >Debian maintainers in general.
I understand. Unfortunately, Debian has a number of developers that are quite impolite while doing their work. In a real company, such people would be confined to their development work and kept away from paying customers. A win-win situation for all parties, but Debian cannot afford that, unfortunately. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! 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 debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1wgzgu-0008lu...@swivel.zugschlus.de
