Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 04:18:41PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > If you can't test it, what good does it to reopen the bug?
> 
> It is a real bug and I have no reason to believe it was fixed.

It *was* a real bug and you have no reason to believe it is not fixed.

> Meanwhile the submitter has said that as soon as circumstances allow,
> he'll test it.  Is the bug doing harm by sitting open?

New submitters are expected to look through existing bug reports.  The
BTS can take over a minute to generate a summary of all reports in
linux-2.6.  Yes, stale bug reports do harm.

> Perhaps
> someone should lower the severity to wishlist to keep it off your
> radar?

If it is a real, live bug then it is important.  If not, it should be
closed.  Changing the severity is just silly.

Ben.

> I just want the bug to be fixed and believe the bug tracking
> system is a useful way to track work towards bringing that about.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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                                                              - Albert Camus