"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:26:45PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > What do people look on the following idea: not allow packages to > > migrate from sid to testing if they have unanswered bug reports > > with severity >= normal? > > Bad idea. This penalizes inremental work. I.e., package foo gets > seven important bugs filed against it. The maintainer fixes three > and uploads. That is certainly an improvement. Your proposal > penalizes that maintainer for not fixing all of them at one go.
Nikita wrote "unanswered", you seem to have misread that as "unfixed". I believe Nikita is proposing a way to focus on the lack of *any response* by the package maintainer to particular bug reports, not the lack of fixes. -- \ "Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave | `\ trade was to the 16th." -- David Mertz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
