Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I agree entirely. What drives *me* batty in turn is when people take a > confirmed, complete report, ask why it hasn't been fixed yet, and close > it as invalid because obviously something that's been around for a > couple of releases

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-22 Thread Caroline Ford
And all the duplicates have closed - duplicates naturally don't have any further progress. I don't think 60 days is long enough either, but that's a different point. Caroline On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:38 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

LP 1.1.9 considered harmful (was Re: That need to close bugs?)

2007-09-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday 22 September 2007 05:38, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree entirely. What drives *me* batty in turn is when people take a > > confirmed, complete report, ask why it hasn't been fixed yet, and close > > it as invalid becaus

A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 22/09/2007 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > 60 days is to short. Even if we set a time, there are classes of bugs (such > as crashes) that even if incomplete are not invalid (a crash bug is always a > bug). I don't think bugs should get marked invalid except manually. Also, how do we deal with t

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:38:29AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I agree entirely. What drives *me* batty in turn is when people take a > > confirmed, complete report, ask why it hasn't been fixed yet, and close > > it as invali