Count me in support for sjr here. It's a thankless task to maintain software--every fix like this has to be weighed in priority against all the other bugs people are complaining about, and it seems like the bugmail never stops--and I know the temptation to respond tersely. On the other side, I'd also succumbed to the temptation to "escalate to Slashdot" when a bug I care about doesn't seem to be getting enough attention. The escalation was in questionable taste in this case: like it or not, the root user in Unix does have the authority to destroy the filesystem i he makes an accident. Be careful when you're root!
I'm glad the immediate bug was fixed--and so quickly!--and I hope that he wishlist bugs eventually get their attention, too -- both upstart growing the ability to check for mandatory arguments, and also for launchpad to distinguish reclassified bugs without confusing unfamiliar readers by marking them "Invalid".
Count me in support for sjr here. It's a thankless task to maintain software--every fix like this has to be weighed in priority against all the other bugs people are complaining about, and it seems like the bugmail never stops--and I know the temptation to respond tersely. On the other side, I'd also succumbed to the temptation to "escalate to Slashdot" when a bug I care about doesn't seem to be getting enough attention. The escalation was in questionable taste in this case: like it or not, the root user in Unix does have the authority to destroy the filesystem i he makes an accident. Be careful when you're root!
I'm glad the immediate bug was fixed--and so quickly!--and I hope that he wishlist bugs eventually get their attention, too -- both upstart growing the ability to check for mandatory arguments, and also for launchpad to distinguish reclassified bugs without confusing unfamiliar readers by marking them "Invalid".