Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> With the new style of "mass tirage" of bugs,
The word is "triage"; it's a term from hospital work.
> The user submits a bug;
> while (sleep 1 year) {
> He gets a message asking him to verify if the bug still exists;
> He perhaps especially reinstalls the package that he long ago stopped using &&
> He verifies it || the bug is closed
> }
Who other than the bug reporter would you suggest should try
reproducing the bug?
Suggesting "put that effort into fixing the bugs" is presuming that
the prospective bug fixer knows *which* bugs are worth the effort. If
the bug reporter is unresponsive, the bug is unlikely to be resolved
anyway because it can't be confirmed fixed.
What would you put in place of triage?
Suggesting that the bug simply remain rotting in the BTS seems worse
than subjecting it to triage to determine if it can be discarded.
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