If "tens or hundreds" of people are asking the same question maybe it would be a good idea to state a public answer to said question on the python mailing list? If a maintainer is having difficulties with something, it is his responsibility to file a request for help if I remember correctly.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:21, Nicolas Chauvat <nicolas.chau...@logilab.fr>wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:34:21PM +0200, Jan Geboers wrote: > > But if both the python maintainer and the maintainer of the individual > > package can't be bothered to reply to e-mails or read their bug report > that > > is marked critical, > > Every day, each and every one of us receives *tons* of e-mails. I just > got 200 this morning (after spam filtering). 200*5 minutes is more > minutes than are available in a day. What makes you think your e-mail > was worth replying to? Out of the thousands of Debian+Python users, it > could very well be that tens or hundreds are asking this same question > at the same time, why would someone bother to reply to everyone? > > > what more can be done? It's hard to help if you have no clue about where > the > > problem or high workload is situated. > > Sandro answered that question, please read his e-mail again. > > -- > Nicolas Chauvat > > logilab.fr - services en informatique scientifique et gestion de > connaissances >
