Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:09:14 -0800 | From | Tupshin Harper <> | Subject | Re: lkml, bugme.osdl.org? |
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The bugzillla Dave Jones wrote:
>whilst on the subject of bugzilla: >a few people (myself included) go through the bug database once a week >or so pruning out-of-date/fixed entries. So far the ones I've closed have >been quite sensible, but there are a few there of the form.. > >"xxx doesn't work in 2.5.47", then Rusty's module rewrite happened, >and the tester didn't (or couldn't) see if it got fixed in subsequent >kernels. I'll send out pings to such reports when they get to something >like 5 kernels old. If the problem then doesn't get re-ACKed, I'll >close it. Any objections? > > Dave > Thankfully osdl has been set up with very useful fields for such things. It sounds like cases that you are describing should be rejected with a status of either "UNREPRODUCIBLE" if the bug report was decently done, but you can't reproduce it, or "INSUFFICIENT_DATA" if the bug report was filed inadequately. This can serve as a prompt to the original filer to re-open it with better data.
I don't think you should hesitate to do that at least once for a bug fits either of those cases.
-Tupshin
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