Questions about QA work
I am interested in helping out with QA work in Debian, and I have a couple of
questions related to bug triaging. I've looked at many of the bug reports
for nedit, which was just taken over by the Debian QA Group, so I will use it
to illustrate my questions:
1) When I find an old bug that looks like it wasn't ever a problem in the
package, what should I do? (See #103330 - > 2 years old, looks like a busted
X install was at fault) - Do I close it? Tag it moreinfo, then wait a while?
If so, how long?
2) What to do with a bug that the reporter says works now? (#131659, #113054 -
this one worked with XFree86 4.x, just not 3.x)
3) Old bugs that have been fixed but never closed? (#94612, #96453)
4) Old bugs that were a problem with an old version of some other package, but
never got reassigned? (#68396, #117902 - lesstif1 bugs - but now nedit
statically links against a new version of lesstif1, #151039, #171302 -
gnome-terminal bugs, but a much newer version is in unstable) Do I reassign
them now? Close them? Tag them moreinfo and wait?
5) For bugs I have tagged more info, and I don't think are a problem with
nedit, how long do I wait before closing them? (#151039, #171302 - tagged a
month ago, with no feedback)
Thanks for teaching me,
Josh
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