On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:36PM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: > > Hmmm, If I ever was to write and release an application, I'd be more > > than happy to delegate dirty work to someone else. I'm fairly convinced > > that upstream authors consider dealing with bug reports, suggestions > > and alikes a dirty work. Just imagine receiving doezens of emails > > directly from users, all relating to the same issue. Compare this to > > one email from package maintainer, summarizing them all. > > > I really don't think so! I appreciate every feedback from every single user, > and I think that only that feedback can bring an application to higher > levels. > And, although said, I think the package maintainer can not have a deep > knowledge of the software as the author do, so to be able to address every > remote issue. > Michele
The Debian BTS is quite open. Software authors that want to receive feedback from Debian can subscribe to the Package tracking system (see <http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html>) and receive all bugs reported to the BTS and more. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.