On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Answer:
They are ignored until the package goes out of support and are then closed with:
"We no longer do non-critical <package XYZ> fixes, sorry."
David, as we are often being told this is a community project, so we have to ask - who is the "we" that is being referred to in the last response in that report? It appears to represent someone with some sort of authority. Where does that authority come from, in a community project?
For a package to in the distro I'm sure it has to have a maintainer / packager or a similar team of people. I don't know opensuse's structure that well, but normally the identification of the maintainer / packager is fairly formal so you can figure out who it is if you know where opensuse tracks those things. Once you find that person you have normally found the person who can make support decisions. If you think they are too restricting you can consider taking over responsibility yourself. I know it happens in the kernel every now and then as people come and go. One major example is drivers/ide changed maintainers over the summer. The now current maintainer thought the old maintainer was making too many changes and that it should be treated as legacy stable code instead. The old maintainer said effectively that as long as he was the maintainer he was going to continue improving the code even if it did introduce a failure from time to time, but offered to let the complainer take over. The complainer did, so now we have a new maintainer. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org