On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Pekka Savola <pekkas(a)netcore.fi> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> What do I care? When I filed the bug, the product was fresh and
maintained,
> wasn't it? But more than a year later I'm no longer willing to spend time
> on the same issues without a single sign of life from the package owner.
>
That seems like one of the fundamental problems here; I agree with you.
Having filed bugs, and seeing them get closed 5 years later with "this
product is no longer supported", and no developer response in between is
rather disheartening.
A suggestion for a saner bugzilla automation: close packages in _NEEDINFO_
stage unless there is response from the reporter.
If the developer believes the issue is fixed or there is a high likelyhood
that it has already been fixed in a newer version, s/he should set NEEDINFO
state (with some help to automate this if needed) But this should not be
done automatically.
Isn't the reporter in a better position to know if it was fixed than
random bug triager?
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