On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 04:37:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 10:24:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > That's not what I mean by coordination. What I'd like to know is whether > > it's time to work on an NMU for a bug. I figure it's appropriate to find > > out if the maintainer is working on the bug by sending him an email. But > > did someone just send him an email yesterday? Is it worth me putting a > > lot of time into a fix, or does someone else have one almost finished? > > Maintainer will tell you. Simple. Unless it's one of the maintainers who doesn't respond. You just don't know. If I have some time to do some bug fixes right now, what should I work on? That's a piece of information we don't seem to have. Let's say I've got 4 free hours. If I ask the maintainers if people are already fixing the problems, the responses will probably take more than four hours--my free time is now over, and nothing got done. If I could pull up a list that says "package X needs work", I could probably have fixed a few bugs in the same time. Mike Stone
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