Re: Old bug reports
On 24 May 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > 2200 outstanding bugs. That's 20% of the total bugs received. Can we
> > at least examine these older bugs and clear them out? Since we have
>
> We get lots of complaints about this. Have you considered instead
> putting some *work* into the problem? If you've got some time, go
> through the open bugs, if something needs a patch and you can do it,
> send one to the maintainer, or if you can verify that it doesn't
> happen, report *that* -- I've certainly left a number of bugs open
> because I couldn't duplicate the conditions and thus couldn't tell
> that they were *not* there. "Handling" or "managing" bug reports is a
> skill independent of development and QA; I'd be quite happy to see a
> group that goes through and works on that problem, and it's a good way
> to learn about a package, too...
Agreed. The debian-qa mailing-list exist for this kind of issues, but as
far as it goes, there's plenty of work needing to be done:
- Try to reproduce old bugs
- Submit patches to fix bugs
- Upload some bugfix uploads
- Maintainance of orphaned packages
- ...
Until now, I've taken care of some known orphaned packages, but since our
(Philippe Troin & I) last list of orphaned packages shows we have about
120 orphaned packages, extra volunteers are more than welcome. Just
contact me if you are interested.
Cordialement,
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