On Fri 12 Mar 2010 13:28 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But just closing a bug should not be done. There's usually a reason why > > a bug is reported even if it's invalid. > > Seriously, present some examples here, this talking in the abstract is > stupid. We're all grown ups, no one is going to have their feelings > hurt. Without them I'm sick of the back and forth on this- most devs > leave bugs open for more than long enough to get feedback (and don't > get it!), and we would all rather have bugs be either fixed or closed > than hang around forever. I think another problem is that the bug wranglers aren't necessarily involved in development and don't communicate with the developers before taking action on a bug. That's no fault of the developer, but is a fault with the bug wrangler.