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[Sarah Hobbs]

Emmet Hikory wrote:
>>  2. LP is hard to track to. Regarding, that we don't have special
>>  maintainers for packages, you can't track all the time the status or
>>  new bugs of all packages/bugs filed at LP. Yes, it sometimes sad for
>>  the contributor...but the easiest way is to go online and ping someone
>>  for checking.
> 
>     This is extremely timezone dependent: it is not infrequent for
> developers to be involved primarily in their personal evening (~4
> hours).  This often means that during a given week, finding the
> appropriate person may require that the seeker be relatively close,
> and that developers in e.g. Western United States, Australia, and
> Central Europe may find little active time in common.

Fortunately, there is email too, and I'd imagine that Ubuntu developers 
read mail more than once every 24 hours.

Hobbsee

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