On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 13:47:44 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > No, it's not fine to close a bug without doing anything at all to fix it. > > If you're the only one who reproduces this and cares about it, and you > don't reply to queries about the bug's status, then it's perfectly fine > to close it imo.
If I'm the only one who reproduces this it's not because my machine is special, it's because the maintainer never bothered to reproduce it by himself. That's not perfectly fine, it's wrong. The very first thing a maintainer should do is to reproduce bugs, not wait five years before asking the submitter "do you still reproduce it?". > Keeping very old bugs open simply because the submitter doesn't > reply is utterly pointless. You seem to imply that bugs which are old enough are magically fixed by themselves, which is wrong. I don't want to mean that a bug should be kept open "because" the submitter does not reply, I mean that a bug should be closed when it's *fixed*. Did you ever heard about the "scientific method"? The bug was present when it was submitted. If you want to close it, you should prove in some way that it's fixed, not me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
