Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Now that the BTS has versionning, one can use the last version with > the bug marked as "found" to know if the ping is necessary or not. If > it's a BTS feature (and not done by the maintainer themselves) that > would be, say, 2 mails a year (if those are triggered every 6 months > without activity on the bug), IFF there has been a new upstream (aka > debian revision uploads assume that if the bug isn't closed the bug is > still here and the submitter won't get pinged).
I have 524 open bug reports that I filed in the Debian BTS. What percentage of these are you suggesting I be pinged for on a yearly basis? Doesn't this tend to send the message that a bug submitter's time is less valuable than the package maintainer's time? Is this really a message we want to send to exactly the people who tend to file lots of bugs? -- see shy jo
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