On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:48:07PM +0000, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon October 1 2007 5:22:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:02:25PM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:57:07PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > > Asking *kindly* some help from the submiter, once or twice a > > > > > [year], is not an insult. > > > > > > The insult isn't the request for help. The insult is the implication > > > that if there's no response, the bug will be summarily closed with no > > > attempt made to see if the problem reported is fixed. > > > > FWIW I don't think a ping should threaten to close the bug. That is > > wrong. > > I don't know about that. Hasn't it been a long-standing policy that bugs > that get no response from the submitter to questions can be closed? The important word in the sentence was: _threaten_. Maybe it's a native/non-native speaking issue, but in french "menacer" is quite a strong word. "Do answer or foad" is wrong. "please remember that if you aren't able to follow-up, it's likely that this bug will rot and eventually be closed because of this lack of follow-up". Or something smoother that a native-speaker can come up with :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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