Re: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

["Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do
> that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck
> of a lot -- is of the "thanks for the pointers, please could someone
> check this updated ebuild?" and occasionally "could you clarify $blah
> for me please?" variety.

My first inclination is to take "WONTFIX" as "PISSOFF", and I even read
the previous thread in question. :)

I humbly suggest adding a "REVIEWED" and/or "NEEDSWORK" keyword and
leaving the bug in the OPEN or ASSIGNED state.

But adding the comments (with pointers to more in-depth explanations) is
a great idea, especially if you present them in a cordial way:

    Thanks for helping Gentoo! The ebuild you submitted isn't quite
    ready, so here is what one needs to do to get it in the tree:

    link1
    link2

    Thanks again!

Which is probably what you're doing already. :)

As for missing/AWOL developers, and for developer/user problem
resolution, I *think* devrel handles that:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/

Nathan

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