Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl

[dragoran]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Some package owners are just way, way overloaded.
>>> Recieving more email telling me I'm not looking at bugs isn't going 
>>> to make
>>> me look at more bugs any more than dealing with dozens of "Is anyone 
>>> looking
>>> at my bug?" bugmails.
>>
>> The way out is recuiting more package owners... is there some place 
>> where
>> one (sh|c)ould apply? Some "overseeing newbie owners" structure in 
>> place? Some means of a package owner having a hill full of gnomes 
>> doing the
>> footwork?
>
> A better solution in some cases is to file the bug directly upstream. 
> Not all package maintainers have the technical skills to debug a 
> complex problem and cough up a complex patch, a lot of times all the 
> maintainer is doing is forwarding the bug upstream.
>
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2006-December/001119.html