Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> I have 524 open bug reports that I filed in the Debian BTS. What
> percentage of these are you suggesting I be pinged for on a yearly
> basis? Doesn't this tend to send the message that a bug submitter's
> time is less valuable than the package maintainer's time? Is this
> really a message we want to send to exactly the people who tend to
> file lots of bugs?
Pinging bugs is definetly not optimal, but if the alternative is
ignoring them entirely, or being unable to concentrate on the bugs
that actually exist because of older bugs which have been neglected,
it's certainly better.
With all of that said though, maintainers (and everyone else who wants
to help with bug triaging of large packages) would be best off by
starting with bugs which haven't received any love in a long period of
time:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=debbugs;ordering=age;repeatmerged=0;
or similar will help you start with those bugs.
Don Armstrong
--
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good
sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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