Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-10-03 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:15PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: And third, some teams use statuses in odd ways. For example, a while ago the Ubuntu Mozilla team were using In Progress when they really meant Won't Fix

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Sack
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:15PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: And third, some teams use statuses in odd ways. For example, a while ago the Ubuntu Mozilla team were using In Progress when they really meant Won't Fix (I don't know whether they still do this). And as we've seen from

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:15PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: And third, some teams use statuses in odd ways. For example, a while ago the Ubuntu Mozilla team were using In Progress when they really meant Won't Fix (I don't know

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 because

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 invalid

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-21 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 20.09.2007 um 12:57 schrieb Aaron Whitehouse: Do we really gain anything by having a dev look at Ubuntu doesn't work every day for the rest of all time? If the dev has to look at the unchanged bug each day, there's something wrong with filtering/sorting tools. My underlying point is

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-20 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
What is the rationale behind skipping closed bugs in a search? I've been burned by this in the past. I can understand why the QA guys or the even developers would want this but for a user, who is actually making the effort to not only report a bug but to search for dups first, why would they

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Sarah Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are around 750, with the INVALID and WONTFIX bugs included. Please correct me, but I suspect

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Reinhard Tartler wrote: Sarah Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are around 750, with the INVALID and WONTFIX bugs included.

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Fergal Daly
On 18/09/2007, Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reinhard Tartler wrote: Sarah Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Hugo Heden
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:13:44 +0200, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Am 17.09.2007 um 17:44 schrieb Sarah Hobbs: There is simply no way to deal with the current lot of open bugs, to get an overview of them all, let alone having the invalid ones in there - the problem gets too

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Murray
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Sarah Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are around 750, with the

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-17 Thread Fergal Daly
On 12/09/2007, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. While Dapper isn't the bleeding edge of Ubuntu, code that exists in Dapper exists in Feisty and Gutsy today. That implies that bugs that exist in Dapper are also likely to exist. Disk space is cheap. A computer is

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-17 Thread liam321
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:27:49 +0100, Fergal Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 12/09/2007, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. While Dapper isn't the bleeding edge of Ubuntu, code that exists in Dapper exists in Feisty and Gutsy today. That implies that bugs that exist in

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-17 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are around 750, with the INVALID and WONTFIX bugs included. There is simply no way to deal

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-13 Thread David MacKinnon
On 9/13/07, Brian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Matthew Paul Thomas mentioned in a different e-mail it is important to make efficient use of the QA team. While having a lot of bugs in the Incomplete state would be one way of dealing with bugs with insufficient information, it would

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-11 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Alexandre Strube wrote: I want to raise something here... One of the things that made me take some distance from daily ubuntu development was a raid of newer people which closes the bugs for whatever reason. If the bug is not good enough for them, they close. This is more or less an

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-11 Thread Onno Benschop
On 12/09/07 04:39, Alexandre Strube wrote: I want to raise something here... One of the things that made me take some distance from daily ubuntu development was a raid of newer people which closes the bugs for whatever reason. If the bug is not good enough for them, they close. This is more

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Onno Benschop wrote: ... 2. While Dapper isn't the bleeding edge of Ubuntu, code that exists in Dapper exists in Feisty and Gutsy today. That implies that bugs that exist in Dapper are also likely to exist. Disk space is cheap. A computer is