On 02/27/2010 02:08 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> At the point where you have a reported bug, you have a tester.
Not necessarily. Sadly, there are people who report bugs and then don't read
their bugmail, ever. :-(
Also does not apply to
* sporadic bugs.
* non-deterministic bugs (c.f. pulseaudio)
* bugs caused by cross-effects of other packages (c.f. dbus,
kernel-bugs' impact on applications)
* users, who start to modify their use-case, because they desparately
are searching for an escape (c.f. dnssec-conf)
=> No easy reproducer/tester, anymore.
* bugs being closed as "FIXED UPSTREAM/FIXED RAWHIDE" - This kind of
"resolution" means a bug is not being fixed in the distro. It means the
maintainer is refusing to fix a bug a reporter is facing. Reporters will
learn their lessons and leave this kind of maintainers alone.
Less patient reporters will leave Fedora alone.
* maintainers not responding in timely manners. In this case a system's
setup (e.g. set of installed packages) might have changed sufficiently a
reporter is not able to reproduce a bug. In extreme cases, the reporter
might not even recall a report he issued.