Re: Bug reports closed by spammers
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:04:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > The submitter should notice that the "explanation" is actually a spam.
> > If they don't, they should at least notice that their bug was not fixed,
> > and ask why the bug was closed.
>
> This is really not adequate. First, submitters may be long gone. Second,
> we shouldn't expect users who have done the kindness of reporting the bug
> to be willing to continually track its progress.
>
> The maintainer, however, should be paying attention.
They both should be. As long as a confirmation message is sent to the
maintainer when the bug is closed this way (as well as the sender of the
message and the submitter), this is fine. I can never keep track of the
dozens of confirmations, and who gets what.
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- mdz
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