[Utnubu-discuss] Ubuntu patches

[Gustavo Franco]

On 1/14/06, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Samstag, den 14.01.2006, 15:06 +0100 schrieb Stephan Hermann:
> > > Well, I almost never check the qa packages and only rely on e-mail (and
> > > I really like how in Debian you can do anything with e-mail)...
> > > But everyone has his own style of working, I guess.
> >
> > It wasn't meant to be as offense, but I see some debian packages and their bug
> > report and the maintainer didn't react in a countable period of time (e.g.
> > boson-base). So I'm asking, I like the email approach as well, but sometimes
> > you have to check somewhere else via web, so I take my time and do this.
> Sure, from time to time the maintainer should check the pages if he
> overlooked something (e.g. marked a mail as read that he still wanted to
> work on and forogt), but it is a good thing that we don't need to check
> various pages on a reguar bases. (Heck, I even wrote a script that mails
> me when new weekly assignments from my university appear :-))
>
> > Well, if it's possible to have email notification from your side to the
> > package maintainer, why not implementing it :)
> The question is: Is is something that enough people deem useful enough
> to spend the time to implement it. :-)

In a thread in -devel i suggested the mail notification to be added in
PTS (anyone can already subscribed to a package and receive bugs,
news, ... by mail). Raphael pointed me to a wiki article and i'll take
look in the code ASAP. It seems that he plans to integrate it.

--
Gustavo Franco