Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:08:31 -0500 | From | "Murray J. Root" <> | Subject | Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available. |
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:17:50AM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:10:13AM -0500, Gerhard Mack escreveu: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > This is not an easy problem space, on the one hand you want to have all > > > bugs tracked, on the other hand, trivial bugs in the bug db just make the > > > bug db unusable. No engineer is going to put up with 100,000 stupid bug > > > reports. You need a plan to get rid of those or keep them out of the bugdb > > > or it's unlikely to get used by the people who really need to use it. > > > Or the bugs could just be assigned to whoever owns the patchset ... > > or the tickets could just be closed after, say, one month without activity. > > If it is really a bug it'll be resubmitted after a while, its not as we'll not > have duplicates anyway... >
Very bad idea. People using unusual hardware do not want to keep re-submitting a bug report. I know when I submit a report I expect that it will remain until the problem is fixed. I do not like to receive multiple copies of a bug report so I don't submit multiple copies unless it's going to be helpful (like pointing out different versions that exhibit the problem). If I thought my report was just going to get dropped because the developer was busy that month I wouldn't bother to submit at all. I'd rather wait 6 months for a fix knowing that the report is still in the database than just have it dropped.
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