<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Rex Dieter <<a href="mailto:rdieter@math.unl.edu">rdieter@math.unl.edu</a>> wrote: > 1. maintainer can't reproduce problem reported </div> This one is the one that bites me the most as a package maintainer.... especially for istanbul :-> There are problems I simply can't reproduce, and if I can't reproduce them myself its very difficult for me to use my time effectively as an advocate to getting the issue resolved with aid from upstream. I feel pretty strongly that the person interfacing with upstream needs to be a person who is or has experienced the problem directly or we're just wasting time trying to diagnose a problem we can't reproduce. > 2. it's an upstream bug, not fedora-specific. I tend to lump 'feature requests' into this category... and sadly I tend to sit on these... and I shouldn't. I need to do a better job of encouraging upstream developers to look over the feature request tickets for ones they like. Or maybe I just be honest and admit that I hate every feature that has been so far proposed on any package I maintain and I'm not brave enough to close the bugs out as BADIDEA. -jef