[Bug-gnulib] Re: alloca.c

[Jeff Bailey]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:52:00AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Please email this to address@hidden directly - That's the right
>     community for bug fixes and changes.

> As the maintainers of GNU libc, you are responsible for making it fit
> the rest of the GNU system.  This problem is part of that job.

Note that I am not a maintainer of GNU libc, but one of the maintainers
of gnulib.

> What I do in such a situation is normally to write to the maintainers,
> so please do not think that is anomalous.  

It's anomalous to the extent that emails that go directly to me are
handled substantively differently than emails that go to the list.  By
emailing me directly, this task will sit in my inbox until I have a
moment to deal with it, rather than going to a mailing list where
someone else might pick it up.

> If you want to handle the
> problem by asking other people to handle it for you, please do.  That
> method is fine, presuming it works.  But please follow up and make
> sure it does get handled.  

The longer term solution to this is that I'm slowly switching all of my
bug lists to use RT or some similar solution.  This means that even if
someone comes along at a later date they can catch up on any historical
items sitting in the queue.

> Sending a message to a bug reporting list
> does not guarantee someone will actually deal with the problem.

In this case gnulib has a reasonably active group around it, so there's
less worry than there is with, say, inetutils.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey