On 4 February 2018 at 20:52, Morten Welinder <mort...@gnome.org> wrote: > As a general principle, you should only ask bug reporters to do work if you > intend to do something with the answer. Or, with other words, it really is > not nice to keep asking "is that bug still there?" until they get tired of the > busywork and leave in disgust.
The busywork meaning "attaching a patch and iterating over it"? Considering that you usually stop short of the first step I have to ask you: what kind of "busywork" have you ever experienced? Of course if we get a positive response that the bug is still there we're going to migrate it and keep track of it. > With that in mind, I believe it is much nicer to just leave the old bugs > there. The old bugs will be left there, but closed, so we don't need to check two bug lists, and split the maintenance resources even more. > We never got around to solving the reporter's problem, but at least we did > not add to the pain by asking them to do work and report back, only to > ignore the result of that. Doing that is quite rude. Of course it is, that's why we generally don't do that — except, maybe, for rude bug reporters. Ciao, Emmanuele. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
