[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[Biju Chacko]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:52, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Would a named list of maintainers make a difference?
> This however is no guarantee for speedy handling
> as maintainers may be limited with their time.

I think it's fairly obvious that the current way of doing things has
been less than optimal. We all understand that maintainers have limited
resources (thats true of pretty much all of us).

I think the current complaint is that patches seemingly disappear into a
black hole. I think the maintainers need to do *something* to
acknowledge patches, even if it's a one line 'Received. Will look at it
in the next month or so."

Thus handling isn't speeded up, but at least people get *some* feedback.

Ideally, this should be done on bugzilla, but mail is nice too.

The basic problem is that you have a serious image problem, and you will
have to bend over backwards to fix it.

-- b

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