On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 22:48 +0000, Colin Macdonald wrote: > On 05/02/14 22:42, David Timothy Strauss wrote: > > This is also not the first time this has happened to me. > > I'll chime in: when I first switched to Fedora (F14/15 era), I found > this quite obnoxious, enough that I remember it. > > So there is also an issue of being a welcoming community to newcomers. The problem is that no-one seems to come up with an alternative that's any better. Leaving bugs on EOL versions open to rot away and be ignored is no use. We *could* give everyone privs to re-open closed bugs, I guess, and I personally don't think that would end terribly, but it's kind of a radical plan. The idea of not closing bugs that have comments after the EOL notification doesn't necessarily make things better, I don't think; we'd just have errors in the other direction. Say someone dropped a note 'oh yeah, this is working now!' - it would be silly not to close the bug, right? algorithms are never perfect, but we do have to use them, as a perennially under-resourced project. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
