Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom:
>> So the bottom line is basically this: if you feel this should
>> be the minimum standard of attention that a maintainer must
>> absolutely pay to his buglist, then so be it, but I think you are
>> being unfair to ask this of me.
>
> Yes, I expect maintainers should be able to take a look at the incoming
> bug reports at least once in 12 months.
> That is all what this policy is about.
> Nothing else.

I am seriously and sadly insulted now.

Lets recap:
  - There was no effort made at all to contact me about this policy change
  - The policy change you are making directly involves me doing lots
of work now:
       going over hundreds of entries in the buglist one by one, waiting for
       bugzilla.gnome.org to resolve, and manually "claim" bugs that I
am interested
       in keeping.
  - It also means that receiving bugmail is not good enough, I must from now on
    always visit bugzilla.gnome.org and resolve the page to claim the bug, after
    having coffee and reading my morning bugmail, and just before I
hurry out the door.

And if this weren't enough, now you are telling me that this policy is all about
me not doing enough work for GNOME, Nothing else.

This is the attitude I expect from people outside of GNOME, people
reporting bugs
whom dont completely understand what it is we go through to deliver GNOME.

To tell you the truth its gotten so bad this year that sometimes I just dont
want to look at the bugmail, for fear of another user telling me:
   "how dare you release 3.6 at all if its not perfect, you must fix it for
    me immediately or I will declare your work a waste of time".

I need to know that we are together in GNOME, we are supposed to be a team;
please dont tell me that my work is not welcome.

Regards,
   - A tired maintainer.