Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:36:39AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second submitter? I believe submitter [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] works just fine. I'm quite

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:40:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: ... On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better explanation than This is

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You seem to confuse this with bug closing. It's common practice to adjust the severity of a bug to a RC one if a RC issue was mistakenly reported as non-RC, and neither your

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:33:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I didn't know a bug can have more than one submitter. What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second submitter? Not entirely the answer you're looking for, but submit a duplicate bug and merge it. --

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mark Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 16:00]: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:33:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I didn't know a bug can have more than one submitter. What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second submitter? Not entirely the answer you're

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:01:52PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Mark Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 16:00]: Not entirely the answer you're looking for, but submit a duplicate bug and merge it. No, don't do that. It's ugly as hell and may well annoy the maintainer by creating noise but

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: grave - serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big difference between them (both are RC) You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities are there to inform the developer and

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M
On 5/4/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: grave - serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big difference between them (both are RC) You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you do immediately lower the severity of a bug I raised the severity of again, could you please at least put my in the Cc header of the message you send to the BTS? No, that's not a requirement. If you want to receive notifications, you should add

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second submitter? I believe submitter [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] works just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
severity 306015 grave thanks Hi Steve, first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better explanation than This is not a missing dependency, feh I know that downgrading RC bugs makes your RC bugs metric look better,

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: severity 306015 grave thanks Hi Steve, first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better explanation than This is not a missing dependency, feh Looking at the bug log,

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: severity 306015 grave thanks Hi Steve, first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Looking at the bug log, it seems that you had no business increasing the severity in the first place. You didn't report the bug, you [...] So now just people who are affected by bugs are allowed to report them? And it's also

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You seem to confuse this with bug closing. It's common practice to adjust the severity of a bug to a RC one if a RC issue was mistakenly reported as non-RC, and neither your Developers Reference nor your release team have ever disagreed with this

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Looking at the bug log, it seems that you had no business increasing the severity in the first place. You didn't report the bug, you [...] So now just people who are affected by

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
Adrian Bunk wrote: grave - serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big difference between them (both are RC) You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities are there to inform the developer and the rest of the Debian world about the seriousness of the

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 306015 important quit On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better explanation than This is not a missing dependency, feh If you are