Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-16 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Friday 15 May 2009 at approximately 05:15:15 Jon Kristian Nilsen composed: > This discussion never seems to get old. > > > Thirdly: > Why are users encouraged to report to the ML and the forums beforehand? I > don't see any practical reason in having several bit's and pieces of > info

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-15 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
This discussion never seems to get old. First of all: The guidlines is a stub, maybe someone should update it? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_Bug_Guidelines I am not saying it doesn't provide enough information, but when people keeps asking why's and whatnot, maybe it doesnt? Secon

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-15 Thread Allan McRae
Damjan Georgievski wrote: The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since the problem was not even solved. It's worth noting that the people who handle re-open requests are not necessarily the one assigned to the bug. I did notice that .. and also I didn't want

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-15 Thread Xavier
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-15 Thread Xavier
2009/5/14 Angel Velásquez : > > Well, sometimes and this time I have to point you Jan (nothing > personal, you are my hero dude), but, why? see this bug for example > [0].. You closed it with the reason "works for me" but you didn't > research a lot, I had this exact problem and I solved it downgra

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since >> the problem was not even solved. > > It's worth noting that the people who handle re-open requests are not > necessarily the one assigned to the bug. I did notice that .. and also I didn't want to attack anybody personally,

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> And another note: when reopening a report, the text of the reopen > request is added as a comment. It may be a small text area, but it > does allow for more text than it seems I didn't know this happens automatically - that's one good thing to know. -- damjan

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:01:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: >> On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler >> composed: >> > Jan de Groot schrieb: >> > > The only valid reason I see for closi

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:01:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler > composed: > > Jan de Groot schrieb: > > > The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when > > > upstream made a decision in t

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
>        Now all of the above is just my opinion on the issue and will look > like a > bunch of idle rambling to most, but if you sift through it, there just may be > a perl of wisdom to pick out. (remember, even a blind squirrel finds a nut > every once in a while ;-) Lol, a "perl" of wisdom. Co

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler composed: > Jan de Groot schrieb: > > The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when > > upstream made a decision in the software which is reported as bug by the > > user. An example of this is excluding

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when upstream made a decision in the software which is reported as bug by the user. An example of this is excluding evince from the menus by using NoDisplay=True in the .desktop file. This bug is opened now and t

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way >> bugs are handled in Arch. >> >> I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about >> the

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 16:42 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: > for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the > bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. > Why it'll be closed at this point ? > > While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still h

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread ludovic coues
for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. Why it'll be closed at this point ? While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still here, and need to be tracked. So closing a bug report before resolv

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
That's a very unfortunate set of misunderstandings. Sorry to hear. Anyway, so hold out there and things'll get fixed probably. Especially after this post. -AT On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs a

[arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even inve

Re: [arch-general] Bugs.

2008-05-17 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/5/5 Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:48:52 +0300 >> >> Right. I plan on going through the bug tracker more often, but it would >> be a waste of time if I comment on all the bugs but they never get >> clos

Re: [arch-general] Bugs.

2008-05-05 Thread Xavier
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:48:52 +0300 > > Right. I plan on going through the bug tracker more often, but it would > be a waste of time if I comment on all the bugs but they never get > closed. So I will focus my efforts on bugs that

Re: [arch-general] Bugs.

2008-05-05 Thread Loui
On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:48:52 +0300 "Grigorios Bouzakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I already did go through many bug reports/feature requests yesterday > and requested closure on the ones that seemed to be fixed/no longer an > issue. Also commented on the ones that were potentialy solved to > mot

Re: [arch-general] Bugs.

2008-05-05 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On 5/3/08, Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there. I was just browsing the bug tracker and I noticed some open > bug reports: > > 7 reported in 0.7 Wombat > 10 reported in 0.7.1 Noodle > 58 reported in 0.7.2 Gimmick > 18 reported in 0.8 Voodoo > I'd love to help but obviously patches can

[arch-general] Bugs.

2008-05-03 Thread Loui
Hey there. I was just browsing the bug tracker and I noticed some open bug reports: 7 reported in 0.7 Wombat 10 reported in 0.7.1 Noodle 58 reported in 0.7.2 Gimmick 18 reported in 0.8 Voodoo Anyways I have some questions about bugs and such: Are there any reasons that these bugs have not re