On 17 July 2017 at 21:25, Yuri Gribov wrote: > What to do about bugs originating in upstream packages? I noticed > they sometimes get closed with "RESOLVED MOVED" resolution > (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58841) but often this > does not happen and they just hang in tracker forever for no good > reason. > > Actually what I tried to emphasize is that it's impossible for a > casual commiter (who does not have maintainer access to Bugzilla i.e. > rights to close bugs) to contribute to project by cleaning stale bugs, > because requests to close them are mostly ignored (because > maintainers, obviously, have much more interesting work to do).
Even if the bug remains open until a maintainer happens to look at it again, the information that it's fixed in a current release is still useful to add. So I'd encourage you to still add such information, you're not wasting your time.
