Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Hazelton <> | Subject | Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs | Date | Fri, 2 May 2008 13:44:59 -0400 |
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On Friday 02 May 2008 13:30:23 Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> > wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing > > > ... out and is exactly what shouldn't be happening. > > I wasn't arguing that it is what should be happening - I was just > pointing out that there are worse things than that routinely happen in > distro bugzillas!
I have to admit that this is the truth. I've seen it myself. (Hell, I won't touch a bug-tracking system for that reason.)
> Also I feel that if maintainer refuse to fix something - that's a dead > end as far as that particular bug is considered. We can try and track > such bugs in different STATUS but there would have to be people > interested in digging through such bugs and willing to fix it after > the maintainer has given up. Which is possible but not likely. > > Parag
And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into acting mature and responsible.
DRH
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