Re: who can close bug?

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: who can close bug?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:24:21 +0100

> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:42:40PM +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.

I have been wondering that the bugs tagged potato should
be closed and many too old bugs which we can't get response
from submitter any more should be tagged moreinfo and close 
them after some time because

http://www.jp.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html#tags

said as follows;

moreinfo
This bug can't be addressed until more information is provided 
by the submitter. The bug will be closed if the submitter doesn't 
provide more information in a reasonable (few months) timeframe. 
This is for bugs like "It doesn't work". What doesn't work? 

Thanks,			  2003.5.6(Tue)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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