Re: who can close bug?
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:54:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > > I am wondering recently then that who can close the bugs
> > > which should be closed.
> >
> > Anyone can close bugs by sending a message to
> > nnnnn-done@bugs.debian.org if it is appropriate.
>
> Of course, but, for example,
>
> http://www.jp.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html#closing
>
> said as follows;
>
> Normally, the only people that are allowed to close a bug report
> are the submitter of the bug and the maintainer(s) of the package
> against which the bug is filed.
>
> I suspect many members hesitate to close bugs only
> by their decisions.
>
> So it is natural that someone who finds a bug which could
> be closed advises us to close the bug and we close it.
>
> It is not so bad but, to some extents, it is not straight
> way and takes extra work, IMHO.
True. I wonder if someone who knows (te)TeX and is doing bug checking
for us can just ask once "can I go ahead and close bugs which are no
longer relevant?", and if you say yes, then they will just go ahead
and do so.
Julian
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