Re: A Hurd release

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:33:05 +0000 (UTC),
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> 
>       The key point is that you are seeking help.
> 
>    I'm not seeking help.
> 
> Right.  You are the person offering help: to report bugs, but not the
> way they are wanted.  The `you' was directed to people already in the
> project.
> 
> Perhaps your offer should be rejected on account the pay for accepting
> your help is considered too high by others.  (The `pay' is that you
> would force a change in the way bug reports are accepted.  That is
> what people who are already in the project would pay to accept your
> help.  It is what it would cost them.)
> 
> Or perhaps your offer should be accepted, the `pay' being an
> acceptance on the part of others of a different way to receive bug
> reports.

You might have a good point if the maintainers supported using
savannah.  This is simple not the case.  Roland, for instance, has
recently said [1] that he mostly ignores the messages from the
savannah patch manager as it is too difficult to find the relevant
information.  (I don't know if this also excludes the bug reports that
the savannah bug manager sends to the lists as well, however.)


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2004-09/msg00071.html