Fwd: 'needs-packaging' reports

[Chris Coulson]

Oops - I forgot the link in my first mail.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson at googlemail.com>
Date: 2008/10/13
Subject: Re: 'needs-packaging' reports
To: Arnaud Blouin <blouin.arno at gmail.com>
Cc: ubuntu-bugsquad at lists.ubuntu.com


2008/10/13 Arnaud Blouin <blouin.arno at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> I would like to know what we can do against guys that create one
> '[need-packaging]' report for each open-source project they found while
> surfing the Web. For instance, this guy:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/~tree-mendus<https://bugs.launchpad.net/%7Etree-mendus>has created no less than 700 'needs-packaging' reports.
> Maybe someone should explain to him that each open-source software may not
> be packaged for Ubuntu, since it is not the goal of Ubuntu.
>
> Cheers.
> Arno
>
> --
> Ubuntu-bugsquad mailing list
> Ubuntu-bugsquad at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugsquad
>
> There is a well defined procedure for handling needs-packaging bug reports
[1], so you should probably handle each request individually according to
that procedure. However, that guy has raised a lot of requests (I think it
would probably take one person a full working year to process all of his
requests). I have already suggested to him that he has a go at trying to
package some of these himself, but he never responded and just continues to
open these reports. I know at least one other person has also tried
suggesting this to him too, with no response either.

Regards
Chris

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#Needs%20Packaging%20Bugs
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugsquad/attachments/20081013/b2a2b3c1/attachment.htm