Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] ROX: maintainer-wanted and apps out of date

[Jakub Moc]

12.9.2005, 16:03:17, Chris Gianelloni wrote:


> Many users seem to think that a WONTFIX is non-negotiable. I tend to agree
> with them, for the most part. Rather than WONTFIX them, simply tell them that
> they won't be included as-is. WONTFIX gives the user the impression that we
> are not interested in their work or the package, when this is not the case.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/wontfix.txt

Telling them that the ebuild "won't be included as-is" pretty much equals
WONTFIX, except for the major disadvantage that is can't be tracked via
Bugzilla at all... not so much fun really, considering there are over 600 new
ebuild bugs there.

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