Bug#285017: marked as done (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686: upgrading from v2 to v6 slows down my modem)
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:48:15PM -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:13:54 +0900
> Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Yes, time-keyd events in the BTS would be awsome.
>
> But what if the reporter died? Would a bug cease to exist just
> because its reporter did? "If a tree falls in the forest..."
>
> I've submitted valid bugs that took several months for their
> maintainers to even look at, sometimes years. Or sometimes the bug
> sits there for a while, then the maintainer quits, and a new
> maintainer comes on and fixes it.
Obviously there is room for abuse. But I still think it is of value
if you are managing a lot of bugs, as the kernel-team is.
For instance, a bug which required more information to resolve,
and no information is forthcoming, might be best of marked
as +wontfix (i.e. cantfix), and having this happen automatically
after a period of activity makes sense to me.
Alternateively, more volenteers could sift through bugs reports,
and manually update them.
> Note to Maximilian Attems: where should this be discussed? I figure
> if somebody emails me a "me too" about an off-topic idea that seems
> dubious, it's fair to reply. By which reasoning the first poster
> would be at fault for posting off-topic, not me. OTOH, one might
> argue that nobody should post such messages, regardless of the cause,
> and each additional reply just compounds the irrelevence.
--
Horms
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