Re: Bug#75853: TONER CARTRIDGES
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:28:46AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Can't you read, or do you have problems reading between the lines?
>
> Naturaly this verification mail comes (and goes) to the BTS.
I very explicitly said that this is a problem with using it in the case
you described, and *not* for the BTS. I did this to make sure it was
clear that I wasn't objecting (on those grounds) to your idea. You even
quoted and replied to me saying that.
Could you *please* resist the urge to flame at random?
> > (That isn't a problem with the idea of using it on the BTS; it's just a
> > really bad idea for users on a mailing list.)
> For each spam, the counter goes up. What if someone (in one year or so)
> sees that Debian have (have had) 1 milion bugs (resolved or not)!? And
> 900000 of those are spam. Who cares? The bugs numbers are above one milion,
> that means Debian GNU/Linux is so crappy that it have (had) a milion
> bugs! THAT makes Debian look bad!
The bug you referenced:
http://bugs.debian.org/75853
was not opened by a bug report, it was opened by "Jean-Philippe Guerard", a
user. The spam merely got added as a regular bug comment (presumably having
harvested the bug archive.) If spam is actually causing new bug reports to
be filed, this isn't an example of it, and I havn't seen anyone complaining
about it.
Worrying about the bug IDs is a little pointless, I think. There are over
160000 bug reports, and the vast majority are quite legitimate reports
from users. The rate of bug reporting will only increase as Debian
gets more users and more packages; it *will* legitimately reach a million
bug reports, and relatively soon. The only solution to that is to fix
all the bugs before they get reported.
If you think making the number of bug reports available to users makes
Debian look bad, then this isn't related to spam at all, and you should
bring it up on its own grounds. (I think that'd be pointless, though.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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