On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:36:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Horms wrote: > > > reopen 285017 > > thanks > > > > Hi Maximilian, > > > > its still a bug in the 2.4.27 package. It may or may not be fixable. > > And the patch may or may not be appropriate for Sarge. > > development wise 2.4 is long dead. > therefor i'm not sure if it's sane to archive all it's bugs. > i don't see much of use. > users wont navigating through the unsorted obscure list of kernel > packages that may affect them. > > either way i wont touch the 2.4 side of the bts. > respect your engangement. > > > My current preference for handling problems like this, > > is firstly to encourage the user to use a more up to date kernel. > > Secondly downgrading feature requests (which this isn't) to > > wishlist. And lastly ascertianing what if a fix exists, > > and if so either adding it to SVN or marking the bug as +wontfix > > accordingly. +wontfix is also my prefered option for bugs that > > we think are too hard. > > as said above i don't see much gain in such a work. > > > While I don't like clutter in the BTS, I think closing bugs just > > opens the door for duplicates to be subsequently filed, and > > I'm not sure that helps anyone. > > > > On a related note, your work cleaning out bugs for 2.6.10, 11 and > > other soon to be removed from the archive kernels is excellent. > > I am really pleased about the way that is going. Its something > > that has needed to be done for a while. > > thanks for the notice! :) > anyway i'll try to allocate some timeslice for that from time to time. > i have quite an horror for the pile of the kernel metapackage bug. > as those are stable users, you can't help much for those. > but ill try to also sort them. > > an expired tag that would close bugs one month later after tagging if the > bug reporter doesn't reappear would be on my highest wishlist now the bts > gets even nicer.
Yes, time-keyd events in the BTS would be awsome. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
