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Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs



On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@mp3revolution.net> writes:
> > fixing bugs, to simply closing them in the BTS.  Sometimes, it's good to
> > keep bugs open in the BTS (tagged w/ wontfix, documenting a problem that
> > other people may bring up; or tagged w/ unreproducable, as another
> 
> [...] 
> 
> Of course this shouldn't change the way we use the BTS. If people
> misuse the BTS and close bugs which isn't really fixed or really
> proved as non-bugs they shouldn't get credited for the close. We might
> even let it have a negative impact on their status.

"might"?  We *should*.

>   - Destructive help - This person shouldn't ever touch my packages again

Heh.  Someone fucking up bash's essential behaviour comes to mind.  It
happened once.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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