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Re: What to do with unresponsive maintainers?



On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:10:14PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> was heard to say:
> A high bug count an-sich is no shame. It is only an indication that the
> package apparently is useful, and people take the time to give feedback
> to make it even more useful.

  That's true, but old bugs that are too vague, unreproducible, and/or
probably fixed clutter up the bug list (which means it's hard for users
or developers to find real bugs in the package).  Purging them from time
to time is a good idea IMO...if anyone cares they are free to reopen
them with more information or file a new bug.

  Daniel

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