Andreas Tille wrote: [...] > I'd love to see the package maintainer to decide whether a bug is a bug or not. [...] > This is nice of you but I do not really want to spend our users time for > fixing problems of lazy maintainers. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What are you talking about? Has Debian Maintainer Territioriality been expanded to the point where you have to complain about me helping out on someone elses package? >>I do not wish to bug someone about signing every single mail to BTS. > We do not talk about *every* mail but only <bug-nr>-done mails. That's too many. >>If you do abolish the ability of non-DDs to operate on the bug system, >>you start ruining the recruitment process. >>If you have become a developer before doing something useful with the >>BTS, maybe I should start a thread "The DAM creates accounts way too fast". > Well, the BTS has more useful applications than closing bugs and thus you > are free to do a plenty of stuff with it. You could even close those bugs > you might have opened by yourself. ;-) Yeah, or I might just quit caring. There is no reason not to continue with letting people close bugs. Handling bugs from new to patch or done is a good way to help out busy people and should not be artificially restricted. Even if you want to avoid spam closing bugs, a pseudo-header solution would be much less intrusive. > You mal was not really harsh and I just introduced my first mail with > this sentence because a short browsing of the history gave no hint on > signed close-procedure which seams to be reasonable to me. If I would > have overlooked a similiar suggestion I would have tried to use my > sentence as excuse. ;-) Well, I'm glad if you're not offended. I do believe that your suggestion if very similar to Julian Mehnles and all arguments offered against his suggestion are valid. That's why I followed your instructions and ignored the first mail, but was not pleased by the "Tell me a reasonable (not only theoretical) case where it is important that anybody else closes a bug." I believe that I have seen them. Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://beamnet.de/tv/>
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