On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU writes ("Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)"):
> > Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without
> > contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was prevented
> > from doing so and was requested to either check them against emacs24
> > or leave them alone. It's not hard to imagine what happened...
>
> One of my bugs was involved in this situation and I was one of the
> people (the person?) who objected. I contacted the maintainer who
> agreed with me that the bugs should not have been closed. After
> discussion the contributor's actions were reverted.
My impression (unknown-package@ wasn't CCed from the beginning) was that
the objection was a bit confrontational. I can't tell if this was the
cause, but the contributor reverted all his changes as requested and
hasn't touched any orphaned bug since.
> I don't think it is appropriate to mass-close bug reports without
> approval from the maintainer. Failing to get the maintainer's opinion
> was not a minor communication error - it was a critical mistake,
> because it led to harmful (if well-meaning) action by the contributor.
I completely agree that the maintainer should be contacted. What should
happen if the maintainer doesn't react?
> It's true that some packages are so overwhelmed with bugs, and have so
> much churn in the code, that old bug reports are nearly worthless. In
> such a case I can see that the maintainer might have a policy of
> closing some categories of old bug reports. This is obviously not a
> desirable situation, but it might be the least bad approach to a
> difficult situation.
For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action:
1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against
recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as
needed
2. if no response within a reasonable amount of time (3 months?)
mass-close them
According to my script this applies to 162 bugs, of which some are in
the 5 (five) digit range and only 1 (one) bug number is higher than
500000. List attached.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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