On 08/02/13 06:25, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:25:30 -0700 > Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 08/01/2013 02:07 PM, David wrote: >>> On 8/1/2013 4:31 PM, Tethys wrote: >>>> So here I am, sat with an inbox full of bugs that I reported when >>>> F17 came out and now they're being closed as F17 is EOL. Once >>>> again, several of them don't appear to have even been looked over >>>> *at all* by the package maintainer. I wonder why I bother >>>> sometimes... >>> Are they still active 'in' Fedora 18 or fedora 19? If yes then >>> reenter them. >>> >>> If not? Maybe you should update your version to solve your problem? >> I think you missed his (and my) point. What good is it to open a bug >> report early in a version's life if the only time you get a response >> is when it's closed at EOL for that version? > Speaking hypothetically (and playing the devil's advocate a bit), the > fact that the bugreports were not responded to doesn't mean that they > were not looked at or maybe reported upstream. It can happen that the > upstream devs already knew about the bug and had a fix in a later > version, which would come with the next version of Fedora. Nobody > bothered to answer since it didn't require any further input from the > OP. > > While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of > bad manners, David is right that you should check if the bug is > resolved in the later versions of Fedora before getting angry about > being ignored. Yep.... I just got 3 closures of bugs reported in F17 that were looked at and subsequently fixed in F18 but not back ported. I know there will be several other when F18 reaches EOL since the next version of LibreOffice fixed some and F18 will remain at 3.X of LO. I've not felt ignored. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
