> > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:10:17 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > >> The practical point is that F12 > > >> is about to go EOL which means the bug must be closed... > > > > > > Why? Obviously it needs to be clear that nothing further should be > > > expected from the maintainer unless/until the version is bumped. But > > > the project can choose to indicate that by closing the bugs as WONTFIX > > > or some other way, e.g., another resolution or by customizing Bugzilla > > > to show a notice on bugs that are open against an EOL version of > > > Fedora. Personally, I dislike the use of WONTFIX because > > > philosophically I think it doesn't fit, and practically it makes > > > zapped bugs impossible to distinguish from real WONTFIX bugs in > > > searches > > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528319). > > > > This is my problem with the auto closing also. Leaving a bug open allows > > a more dedicated maintainer to come along (even years later) and actually > > fix or even apply patches that are still relevant without wasting time > > with bugs that we're actually looked at and legitimately closed. > > Years later pretty much every bug will be irrelevant thanks to the > underlying changes that happen with every release and asking submitters to > verify that the bug is still there is the right way to go. After all 8 out > of 10 abrt submitted bugs against Eclipse stays months with questions and > needinfo flags and no response from submitters. > Note that I'm not saying these bugs shouldn't be submitted sometimes even > just because for the 2 submitters that answer questions but I definitely > don't want to waste my time closing the rest of them. > "Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's > lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. " > This is the best we can do no matter what we want to do! > > P.S. Believe me having open bugs that both the packager and the submitter DON'T care for (sorry for the typo) > care for are useless and these are the kind of bugs that get auto closed. > If one of them cares he will change the version flag. Oh and looking at a > list of hundreds bugs makes things close to impossible to put priorities, > fix and improve the situation. > > Alexander Kurtakov -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
