Re: Support for 5.x (Was: Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ?)

Remko Lodder wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:21:44PM +0000, Chris wrote:
On 03/02/07, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
think you hit the nail bang on the head, I am one such person who
tried to submit a bug causing crashes and have found a lack of
enthusiasm to get the bug fixed. One thing I have noticed about 6.x
is there is many features that 5.x doesnt have, so it looks clear
there is lots of activity in working on new code but little activity
in fixing bugs and working on stability.

Hello,

I feel poked by this, and it saddens me that this is the reply we
get.

No criticism intended of the folk who sacrifice their free time
dealing with other people's bug reports & diffs, it's very kind of
them to do it :-) I guess lots of us paused a moment to admire the
courage of the last bug-a-thon assault team (a weekend about a month
back I recall).

I just suggest the oldest bug reports (most boring/ intractable/
tedious, unappealing to unpaid volunteers) could be worked by
paid/sponsored help, if there's every any money or sponsored hours
available, leaving the newer bugs to interest the unpaid volunteers.

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