On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:42:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:37:10PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Thus, if you have a package with any unanswered important or normal > > bugs, it will not progress. In order to assure propogation, you must > > respond rapidly to any bug that is filed with these severities, even > > though this has nothing to do with fixing the bug. This is a technical > > impedance to a maintainer getting useful work done, like fixing RC > > bugs in testing, and as such is not something that I can condone. > > > I see what you are saying. However, what would be so bad about > requiring that every >= important bug be tagged (either confirmed, > forwarded, non-reproducible, moreinfo, or upstream) or simply closed? > It's not like all the minor and wishlist bugs *have* to be answered. > Heck, the maintainer can even downgrade an important bug if he/she feels > the severity is wrong. That at least indicates some human interaction.
... but doesn't send any message to the bug reporter currently. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
