Re: Solution: secondary maintainer

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:

I agree (who do not?). Explain me now how to respect a minimum timeline to__answer__ questions? or even fix bugs? That does not exist in any opensource projects and I doubt we should have to be the 1st to propose this kind of "Free Commercial Support". Or do you have some nice idea to pay the support team? I mean that sounds logical to take care about orphaned packages. But do not mess with "maximum delay to post a fix, or answer a question", this is just impossible to follow. And we are not "PEAR Inc.". Actually the ideal of letting someone besides the maintainer fix showstopper bugs does exist in many open source projects. Look at the sherrif role in Mozilla or the Release team in gnome.

I don't think we need to enforce anything like minimum time to fix a bug or anything like that. But when a package doesn't work for anything right out of the door, we should be accepting simple fixes that gets things working again. -joshua eichorn