On Saturday 13 of February 2010, Per Jessen 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?
From the maintainership, and, more importantly in this case, from the fact that nobody else is willing to accept the responsibility that comes together with the authority. "We" in that sentence stands for the openSUSE KDE team, which is only a handful people and only two (AFAIK) of those are actual developers capable of fixing bugs, and they have also other responsibilities. In other words, there's only so much we can do. Now, if the "we" you referred to yourself does not stand just for people who only use openSUSE, discuss and complain about it, but you'd like to also consider improving the situation, you can try helping with some of the work required and thus possibly leaving the developers more time to fix the bugs. For example, even just processing the large number of bugreports can take a considerable time, but it doesn't require any advanced skills besides common sense and experience which can be gained over time. See http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/BugSquashing for details. Or, of course, you can get SLED and a support contract for it if you are not satisfied enough with what you get for free. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org