Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:54:53 + Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote: [...] What do other people think?

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:54:53 + Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote: [...] What do other people think? Agree. I'm surprised to hear people are closing them. (What is this, StackOverflow? ;) )

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Don
On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 21:54:54 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: However, since that time, two or three people have been killing off random trackers, seemingly because they personally don't like the concept. No, because the bugs in question were junk. Junk bugs get killed all the time (eg,

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday, March 17, 2013 21:54:53 Stewart Gordon wrote: There seems to be disagreement between various users on the propriety of trackers. These are bug reports that don't describe a single bug, nor a feature request, but are used to group together related issues. Trackers (also known as

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 18/03/2013 15:56, Don wrote: On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 21:54:54 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: However, since that time, two or three people have been killing off random trackers, seemingly because they personally don't like the concept. No, because the bugs in question were junk. snip

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 18/03/2013 18:10, Jonathan M Davis wrote: snip Walter and Brad Roberts are both very much against them, favoring keywords for keeping track of related bugs. It was recently discussed in the druntime newsgroup: Uh, that doesn't seem to be a newsgroup for some obscure reason.

Re: Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday, March 18, 2013 22:27:44 Stewart Gordon wrote: On 18/03/2013 18:10, Jonathan M Davis wrote: snip Walter and Brad Roberts are both very much against them, favoring keywords for keeping track of related bugs. It was recently discussed in the druntime newsgroup: Uh, that

Policy on trackers in Bugzilla revisited

2013-03-17 Thread Stewart Gordon
There seems to be disagreement between various users on the propriety of trackers. These are bug reports that don't describe a single bug, nor a feature request, but are used to group together related issues. Trackers (also known as meta bugs or umbrella bugs) are used heavily on Mozilla's