Re: Mechanism for removing developers
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote:
> If "One mail is enough -- the bug report!" then One response should be enough,
> also from the bug tracking system. If you need the bug fixed, raise the
> severity (it'll be fixed by the next release, pulled or get a response from the
> maintainer as he lowers the severity to keep the package in). If you don't
> want to do that, pester the maintainer. Otherwise, assume it got to him and
> he'll fix it when he can. I don't see why somebody has to be kicked out just
> because he doesn't respond to the bug report in a timly manner. Some of our
> maintainer have a googleplex of packages and a personal response to each bug
> report could take too much time.
This is the second time Darren has suggested raising the severity.
No!
The severity of a bug is well-defined. It is a property of the actual
bug. It shouldn't be changed because the submitter wants to see it fixed.
Jules
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