On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:27:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > When did you tell me that maintainers should not or cannot be Cc'ed on
> > regression reports?
>
> That is not what I'm complaining about.
That is what I wrote in the part of my email you made this comment on.
> I'm complaining about the fact that you *always* argue against closing
> bugreports.
I'm not always against closing bugs, and e.g. during the last years I've
closed at about 500 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla due to submitters having
vanished.
> You have argued against it for over a YEAR now. And every single time I
> tell you that you are wrong, and exactly *why* you are wrong.
>
> If a reporter doesn't respond to say "it's still open", it needs to be
> closed. It doesn't matter one whit whether there has been developer action
> on it or not. We cannot keep old reports open - it's a total waste for
> developers to even _look_ at anything that is more than roughly a month
> old and hasn't been verified to be still be an issue.
We only differ on whether a human should ask this question once before
closing a bug or whether regular automated requests are enough.
E.g. although Andrew has't responded to Rafaels emails for nearly a
month whether the slab corruption he reported is still present I
wouldn't take this as a definitive indication that he won't answer when
someone has a question. I'd bet Andrew will answer if a human asks him
about the status of this regression.
A developer asking manually "Is this still present?" does cost nearly no
time and gives the submitter a much better feeling than only automated
emails and then a bug close.
> Linus
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Adrian
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