[csw-maintainers] pkgrequests better on Mantis

[Sebastian Kayser]

Philip Brown wrote on 08.02.2010 22:30:
> 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.

If it's something big like samba or anything that depends on a whole
gnome re-build anyone can easily tell the user that although his request
is appreciated, the package will not be there tomorrow. At least he/she
has got some feedback then.

>> or
>> scheduling this package for later. Identifying priority would be nice.
> 
> but who picks priority?
> and based on what criteria?

Who does right now? Those who want to work on it can prioritize, just as
they do right now when they pick the ones from the web page which they
want to work on. If it's collaborative effort the priority can help to
coordinate the effort. Even if we would find out, priorities don't help
that much, nothing is lost and we might have learned something.

Thanks Dago and William for working on it!

Sebastian