[csw-maintainers] pkgrequests better on Mantis

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM, William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> wrote:
> Hi
>>
>> My comment is that this will leave us with a WHOOOLE lot of "bugs" in
>> mantis that will never get closed.
>>
>
> They have to. Either we accept these request, or we have to answer to the
> user that we won't do it, giving a reason for that (out of scope,
> portability problem, not free, don't like it ;),


but I dont see how any one person can say "we wont", since you woudl
have to poll the entire maintainer base every time. and even if you
did that, you dont konw that someone wont join next week that is
willing to do it.

> or
> scheduling this package for later. Identifying priority would be nice.

but who picks priority?
and based on what criteria?