Hi Sebastian, 2013/6/20 Sebastian Kügler: >> > Why not just ask to reproduce with plugins disabled, then enable plugin >> > for >> > plugin, and reassign the bug accordingly? >> >> I've tried that often enough. Most bug reporters never respond. >> Therefore, I think it's better to close the report and ask the >> reporter to reopen if he/she can provide useful information. > > That's exactly what we have the NEEDSINFO flag for, or does this usecase not > apply here?
Yes, that's what I meant, but im my experience, changing the status of a bug to NEEDSINFO is in most cases equivalent to closing, because the reporter will not respond, and the bug stays in the NEEDSINFO state forever. >> >> (b) If anything as bad as the Activities issue ever happens again, and >> >> the plugin developer refuses to respond to bug reports for more than >> >> one or two weeks, I will prevent that this plugin is loaded in >> >> Dolphin, and I won't care if anyone says that I shouldn't do it >> >> because it's an ugly workaround. >> > >> > Let's assume we can do better, and not spew threats around on mailing >> > lists. That's not going to help, and most likely, any new case will be >> > different enough to warrant at least some communication around it. >> >> IMHO, reassignig bug reports and asking for the developer's feedback >> *is* communication. But if you think that this isn't enough, I can >> also send a message to a suitable mailing list (if the plugin has one) >> if I think that the situation is so bad that something must be done >> urgently. > > Again, misunderstanding here. You didn't write reassign, I thought you wanted > to just pop in some code that effectively disabled or breaks that plugin, and > done. Again, glad to know better. > > Cheers and thanks for the clarification, Thank you for asking and helping to resolve the misunderstanding! Cheers, Frank