On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > What do I care? When I filed the bug, the product was fresh and > maintained, > > wasn't it? But more than a year later I'm no longer willing to spend time > > on the same issues without a single sign of life from the package owner. > > > > That seems like one of the fundamental problems here; I agree with you. > Having filed bugs, and seeing them get closed 5 years later with "this > product is no longer supported", and no developer response in between is > rather disheartening. > > A suggestion for a saner bugzilla automation: close packages in _NEEDINFO_ > stage unless there is response from the reporter. > > If the developer believes the issue is fixed or there is a high likelyhood > that it has already been fixed in a newer version, s/he should set NEEDINFO > state (with some help to automate this if needed) But this should not be > done automatically. Isn't the reporter in a better position to know if it was fixed than random bug triager? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
