Maintainer Responsibility Policy

[Brian Pepple]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:12 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Yeah.  I think it's worthwhile to mention something like this:
> 
> "Even bugs that you aren't capable of fixing yourself because they deal 
> with intricacies of the source code that you don't have the knowledge to 
> fix deserve a few moments of your time.  You can report the bug upstream 
> for the user, ask for help from more code-oriented people on 
> fedora-devel, or check whether other distros have patches for the 
> problem.  Always be sure to post to the bug report what you have done so 
> that the reporter has a proper expectation of whether you're working on 
> a fix or if it's something that has to wait on upstream action."

Added. Thanks for the suggestion, Toshio.

Later,
/B
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