Brian if you may, allow me a minute to put to one side the (important) micro features of this issue and look at the bigger picture.
You are a professional whose job it is to manage bugs, always keeping in mind the reality that fixes can have unintended consequences. You have systems and processes in place that keep you sane and the operation transparent. That's all good. It makes sense. I develop the code, manage the project, maintain its website, write its documentation, ingest bug reports, manage translations, attempt to make its distribution better in whatever ways I can, etc. No one pays me (although I occasionally receive a donation). I'm a volunteer whose time is truly very limited. I have other things going on in my life, like my unfinished doctoral dissertation. (I imagine the packager for the program in Debian is also a volunteer facing similar time constraints.) The fact is, the Rapid Photo Downloader release in Ubuntu 20.04 is a snapshot in time of the Rapid Photo Downloader project. That's it. There is literally nothing special about it. Let's not be overly devoted to it. It has a serious problem that I fixed before Ubuntu 20.04 was released, but not quickly enough for it to make past the release freeze. It also contains fixes for issues that are truly meaningful to a set of users that were fixed before the 20.04 release, but again didn't make it past the freeze. Version 0.9.24 of Rapid Photo Downloader is the most stable release of the program I've made in the 13 years I've been developing it. I know that empirically (reports from users) and I know it from my experience from running the project. So when I'm confronted with the prospect of justifying a bug fix release in what looks like excruciating detail. . . . I hope you can see what it looks like from my end of the process. It's all a bit much really. It's like I'm being crushed by the process. I can't do it all. I see the rationale for the process, but I can't cope with it. At this moment, it's a bridge too far. The thing is, the Rapid Photo Downloader release in Ubuntu 20.04 is a really big deal because Ubuntu 20.04 is going to be used by so many users for so long, and I know I'm going to get bug reports for the Rapid Photo Downloader package in it for years to come. And that's painful to think about. It leads to questions as to whether the processes in place are alienating to other developers in my position. It leads me to question whether I should be scaling back my ambitions for the project. In the bigger picture, I don't think Canonical wants this to happen to this project or any other volunteer driven FOSS project. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873944 Title: [SRU] Upgrade rapid-photo-downloader to version 0.9.24 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rapid-photo-downloader/+bug/1873944/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
