On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
The idea of not closing bugs that have comments after the EOL
notification doesn't necessarily make things better, I don't think; we'd
just have errors in the other direction. Say someone dropped a note 'oh
yeah, this is working now!' - it would be silly not to close the bug,
right?
The question here is what's more common:
* "This works for me" comment after an EOL warning. With my proposal,
the maintainer would have to manually set the bug to WONTFIX.
* "This is still a problem" comment after an EOL warning. Currently,
this requires a maintainer to intervene and bump the version.
I assume the latter is more common.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Tom Hughes <tom(a)compton.nu> wrote:
In fact the first message actually tells the reporter to do that:
: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not
: be able to fix it before Fedora 18 is end of life. If you would still
: like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a
: later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to
: a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life.
so if they can't do so then that message seems a little suboptimal.
Not only that, the message provides no guidance to the bug reporter if
the problem still occurs.