Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> I'd love to see the package maintainer to decide whether a bug is a bug or not.
[...]
> This is nice of you but I do not really want to spend our users time for
> fixing problems of lazy maintainers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What are you talking about?
Has Debian Maintainer Territioriality been expanded to the point where
you have to complain about me helping out on someone elses package?
>>I do not wish to bug someone about signing every single mail to BTS.
> We do not talk about *every* mail but only <bug-nr>-done mails.
That's too many.
>>If you do abolish the ability of non-DDs to operate on the bug system,
>>you start ruining the recruitment process.
>>If you have become a developer before doing something useful with the
>>BTS, maybe I should start a thread "The DAM creates accounts way too fast".
> Well, the BTS has more useful applications than closing bugs and thus you
> are free to do a plenty of stuff with it. You could even close those bugs
> you might have opened by yourself. ;-)
Yeah, or I might just quit caring.
There is no reason not to continue with letting people close bugs.
Handling bugs from new to patch or done is a good way to help out busy
people and should not be artificially restricted.
Even if you want to avoid spam closing bugs, a pseudo-header solution
would be much less intrusive.
> You mal was not really harsh and I just introduced my first mail with
> this sentence because a short browsing of the history gave no hint on
> signed close-procedure which seams to be reasonable to me. If I would
> have overlooked a similiar suggestion I would have tried to use my
> sentence as excuse. ;-)
Well, I'm glad if you're not offended. I do believe that your suggestion
if very similar to Julian Mehnles and all arguments offered against his
suggestion are valid. That's why I followed your instructions and
ignored the first mail, but was not pleased by the "Tell me a reasonable
(not only theoretical) case where it is important that anybody else
closes a bug." I believe that I have seen them.
Cheers
T.
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