Hallo Santiago, * Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> [2005-06-29 13:21]: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Nico Golde wrote: > > I think you misunderstood me. Example: > > An adopted package xxx has a lot of old bugs which are > > related to very old versions. Now the maintainer changes. > > Now he wants to send mails to all bug openors if the bug is > > still actual and can be reproduced. > > That's not a reason good enough, IMHO, to send virtually identical email > to a lot of people. > > Instead, try to reproduce the bug yourself, and ask the submitter to > reproduce it only if you can't. Yes generally I agree, but there are bugs where this would be the case for all bugs. Especially if the maintainer changes it is very hard to understand them because he had no contact to the submitters and doesn't know what the old maintainer talked in private to the submitter. regards nico -- Nico Golde - JAB: nion@jabber.ccc.de | GPG: 0x73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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