Re: Bug#204928: reportbug: couldn't call from xargs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:58:07PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:18:15AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > Just to confirm, from (apparrently his) website:
> > http://jidanni.org/comp/index_en.html
> >
> > -cut-
> > You see I just hate having to race thru those click-bang interfaces
> > while my costly modem minutes are ticking. It's so much simpler to just
> > dump the bug in the developer's lap, and if he determines it is worthy,
> > he then takes care of the rest, as I have probably already long ago
> > moved along from my brief brush with his program. Nope, no hoop jumping
> > for me.
> >
> > Just assume I am a robot who cannot be trained to use all the different
> > bug reporting systems out there.
> > -cut-
> >
> > Am I the only one who thinks BTS shoudn't be a write-only media?
>
> This text, and the huge mess of pointless and low-quality bugs he has
> inflicted on Debian, in my opinion justify dumping his bug reports in the
> future.
I'm about --><-- this close to considering the above abuse of the BTS
and justification for a ban, although I'm slightly scared of the
slippery slope down which that might lead us. Dan, please reconsider
your wilful abuse of developers' time, because I do not want to have to
make this decision.
> This is the first time I have considered auto-closing bugs based on
> submitter.
Likewise.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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