Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Meder
On May 24, Vincent Renardias wrote > Until now, I've taken care of some known orphaned packages, but since our > (Philippe Troin & I) last list of orphaned packages shows we have about > 120 orphaned packages, extra volunteers are more than welcome. Just > contact me if you are interested. > C

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 24 May 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: > > 2200 outstanding bugs. That's 20% of the total bugs received. Can we > > at least examine these older bugs and clear them out? Since we have > > We get lots of complaints about this. Have you considered instead > putting some *work* into the problem?

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Mark Eichin
> Of the 5 oldest bugs, 4 are on xbase, and might refer to problems > specific to XFree86 3.1.2, which is no longer current. Someone ought In fact, when I took over X, I went through and closed a *large* number of bugs in the database; this also involved writing a bunch of patches, which is wh

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Brian White
> I was looking at Ian Jackson's automated report of unanswered bugs, and > the number of -very- old bugs is surprising. Closer examination of the > oldest ones makes me think that the problem isn't so much the bugs but > bad handling. Reminders about bugs older than a certain age (currently abou