On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:06:35AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Someone just pointed out that I was holding one of the oldest bugs > on a package. Turns out that the bug was resolved eventually > (different versions). > > It was > 200 days old. > > As a reportbug wishlist, I would like to suggest some method of > periodically notifying the originators of any existing bug reports > that they created, which are not yet resolved.
(This has nothing to do with reportbug - reportbug just sends mail.) Your best bet is just to wget http://bugs.debian.org/from:<your address> every so often. We do have some legitimately really old bugs, and don't want to spam people every so often for years about them, especially since the submitter often can't do anything about them. 200 days old is actually relatively young for a bug report. The oldest non-wishlist bug against the packages I maintain is 4 years and 175 days old, and the oldest wishlist bug is 5 years and 185 days old. Of course I wasn't actually a developer when those were originally filed, but the fact remains that bugs aren't first-in first-out. Frequently new bugs are more urgent, or the old bugs are just very hard to deal with, independent of the problem of inactive maintainers. > Also, there doesn't seem to be any mechanism to notify me when a > bug is resolved so that I can validate my own experience. When a bug is closed you'll get a mail. If it's fixed in a non-maintainer upload you won't currently, but to some extent that's a separate issue which will eventually be fixed as an indirect result of other work. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
