On Wed February 20 2008 3:43:18 pm Ben Finney wrote: > Who other than the bug reporter would you suggest should try > reproducing the bug? > > Suggesting "put that effort into fixing the bugs" is presuming that > the prospective bug fixer knows *which* bugs are worth the effort. If > the bug reporter is unresponsive, the bug is unlikely to be resolved > anyway because it can't be confirmed fixed. > > > What would you put in place of triage?
I think that the point is that triage should happen at *submission* time, not so long later. I have learned that certain well-known packages (OpenOffice, say) are bug blackholes. I submit a bug, and never hear anything from Debian maintainers except for periodic triage stuff when a new upstream comes out. If they suspect it was upstream-related, it should have been forwarded. But I can't submit OpenOffice bugs upstream because we don't use OpenOffice.Org's source trees. Sigh. There appears to be no place for Debian users to submit OpenOffice bugs where a human will investigate. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
