Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What do you think most of us are doing? The real problem seems to be that > > there just aren't enough Mandrake developers to address most bugs. Out of > > the 6 bug reports I have filed, none of them have moved from UNCONFIRMED. > > That is not a developer responsibility. If you want the bug fixed, > ensure it gets confirmed.
Well that depends. Most non-kernel and non-install bugs are looked at even in unconfirmed state - most of them are real and fixable. For kernel problems, first we lack kernel resources, second it's nearly impossible to fix or workaround if we don't have the same hardware here, third even if we have it there are a large number of them for which the ratio between importance and available resource is not good. For install problems, many of them are duplicate: some we set as duplicate, some we ignore; many don't provide enough information, some of them we ask info some we ignore because we suppose it would cost too much time to get the information; many are non important or design issues, we don't have time to explain each and every minor/design point; many of them are already fixed. I know this is frustrating for reporters to "get ignored", but as for the aim of bugzilla, e.g. track & fix bugs, it's now in a state where it's really usable and helping us much to fix bugs. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
