Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-28 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
Agreed. stef On Sep 28, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Sean P. DeNigris s...@clipperadams.com wrote: we have a couple of statuses that come close to that: Resolved Postponed indeed Postponed should be close to stale and I understand Sean concerns. Yes, that sounds like it could work. If we

[Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus Denker
Hello, The issue tracker is again at over 500 entries: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/filters/33/All-by-project Please, if you submitted a bug in the past, check it's status! - Maybe someone asked you a trivial question that *you* can answer in 10 seconds, but if you don't, the issue can

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Thank you for taking care of this, Marcus! While we're on the subject, there have been some issues which were not resolved that were closed due to e.g. inactivity. I totally understand the need to keep the bug tracker to a manageable size, but I feel that something is lost when we do this. For

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus Denker
On Sep 26, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Sean P. DeNigris s...@clipperadams.com wrote: Thank you for taking care of this, Marcus! While we're on the subject, there have been some issues which were not resolved that were closed due to e.g. inactivity. I totally understand the need to keep the bug

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Marcus Denker-4 wrote The problem is that if we have over 500 entries, people just give up. They say what use is it to fix 1, there are just too many. Okay, so I think a Resolved status like Stale would be a good compromise. Then we can close the issue, but it will be tagged as to the reason,

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Camillo Bruni camillobr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-09-26, at 10:23, Sean P. DeNigris s...@clipperadams.com wrote: Marcus Denker-4 wrote The problem is that if we have over 500 entries, people just give up. They say what use is it to fix 1, there are just too

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Issue Tracker] input of submitters/bug fixers needed

2013-09-26 Thread kilon
I agree, closing bugs , or deleting them, on the grounds that none has comment on them for a very long time is a very bad idea. Pharo has a small crowd of users and I seriously doubt they care much of the bug report process. That does not make a bug any less important though. In the end of the