About Fedora bugs

2011-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
We were talking the other day, people were mentioning the bugs they got back from bugzilla recently marked as: Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-06-29 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:11 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > People were saying that the same problem got the same message a year > ago, but it said "Fedora 11" that time. So I have a suggestion, if no > one in the support group looks at a bug in 180 days, close it with a > DONTCARE status and tell

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-06-29 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:23 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:11 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > People were saying that the same problem got the same message a > year > > ago, but it said "Fedora 11" that time. So I have a suggestion, if > no > > one in the support group looks at a bu

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-06-29 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > But if one is an optimist one can take the position that having the bug > fixed if you don't report it is an even rarer event. Perhaps, but I'm not certain that statistics would back that up. I, too, have reported many things and have only ra

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:11 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> People were saying that the same problem got the same message a year >> ago, but it said "Fedora 11" that time. So I have a suggestion, if no >> one in the support group looks at a bug in 180 days, close it with a >> DONTCARE s

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.07.2011 16:45, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > You are being overly harsh. Bugs are fixed if they meet one of two criteria, > effecting a large portion of the user base, or effecting a at least one > developer how is "a large portion of the user base" qualified? there are so many peopole out t

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/01/2011 08:20 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > how is "a large portion of the user base" qualified? > > there are so many peopole out there which never say anything and affected > from bad things, so you can't count them really - but they are there! > > i see this often in my job where people say "

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread James McKenzie
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/01/2011 08:20 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> how is "a large portion of the user base" qualified? >> >> there are so many peopole out there which never say anything and affected >> from bad things, so you can't count them really - but the