Re: [RFC PATCH v1 22/26] docs: reporting-bugs: explain what users should do once the report got out
From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Sun Oct 11 2020 - 09:30:19 EST
Many thx for you comments. Consider all the obvious spelling and
grammatical mistakes you pointed out fixed, I won't mention all of them
in this reply to keep things easier to follow.
Am 09.10.20 um 19:37 schrieb Randy Dunlap:
On 10/1/20 1:50 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
+wait a week at maximum (or just two days if it's something urgent) before
+sending a friendly reminder. If the maintainer is not responding in a timely
+manner or not handing it appropriately, mention that you are considering to
+escalate the issue to a higher authority and do so if there is in the end
and do so if there seems to be
no way around this.
although such a "threat" probably won't do much good.
Hmmm, yeah, I guess did not find the right tone here. But I think this
situation needs to be mentioned in the text. And FWIW, something about
it is even in the old text:
"""
If you suspect a maintainer is not responding to these types of bugs in
a timely manner (especially during a merge window), escalate the bug to
LKML and Linus Torvalds.
""""
So how about this:
```
The 'issues of high priority' (see above for an explanation) are an
exception here: maintainers should address them as soon as possible;
that's why you should wait a week at maximum (or just two days if it's
something urgent) before sending a friendly reminder.
Sometimes the maintainer might not be responding in a timely manner;
other times there might be disagreements, for example if an issue
qualifies as regression or not. In such cases raise your concerns on the
mailing list and ask others for public or private replies how to move
on. If that fails, it might be appropriate to escalate the issue to a
higher authority. In case of a WiFi driver that would be the wireless
maintainers; if there are no higher level maintainers or all else fails,
it might be one of those rare situations where it's okay to get Linus
Torvalds involved.
```
Still not totally happy with it, but I better at least. Or what do other
think about it?
Ciao, Thorsten