Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?
On 15/12/16 17:43, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:26:52AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:11:27 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any easy way to contact everybody who made a bug
>>> report against a package and ask them to check if the latest
>>> upload fixes it? Or is there any script for maintainers to do
>>> this?
>>
>> I'm not sure this is a good idea ...
>
> Me neither, although I suppose it's no worse than being manually
> pinged, which happens quite often for me (often for 10+ year old
> bugs)
>
Yes, I don't think this would be effective if every package maintainer
was doing it regularly.
Given the significant number of fixes upstream, the significant number
of bugs open for the package, the imminent freeze and the lack of
stability for NFS on jessie (due to at least one kernel bug), I
figured it was a reasonable approach in this case, giving a range of
interested people an opportunity to make the package better.
Based on feedback from one bug reporter, I could have included an
explicit disclaimer/apology that I hadn't read the individual bug
reports, although that was kind of implied by the message text[1]
If doing this again, maybe I would also refine it to try and exclude
the email going to people who contributed patches. If only a few of
the bugs have patches then it is probably not too hard to thank them
personally while sending the bulk email to the rest.
> In this case, the bug I'd filed against nfs-utils had indeed been
> fixed at some point, so it worked out worthwhile I suppose!
>
Great, I'm glad my upload may have helped
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793661#10
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