On Sunday 09 January 2005 14:51, tomas pospisek wrote: > > So everyone here will rest in peace again, until the next poor guy dares > > to raise the same lacks, and learn the hard way that some bug reports > > should certainly not be sent to Debian KDE, contrarily to what the > > Debian manuals states, and common practices or tools enable to. > > Such is reality. Get over it or better make something better out of it by > stepping up and becoming a constrictive member of the community, by, f.ex.
Still something is clearly wrong with the way the whole bug reporting system works in Debian. Some developers simply don't have the resources to respond to all the bug reports they recieve, take for instance the samba source package which just keeps accumulating bug reports and nothing is ever done about them. Many bugs seem to be impossible to confirm and just keep hanging around as a ghost report cluttering up the system. Also I don't understand why Debian isn't using a modern bug management system like bugzilla. The main advantage in this case would be acountability. Each reporter must have an acount which must be kept up to date. If the reporter goes away and it is not possible to confirm the bug, then it should just be closed. The way it is now, any random user can file bugs and just forget about them afterwards. He is never held responsible for following up on his report, and in fact it is a bit difficult to even locate your own bug reports in the system. Kind Regards Anders E. Andersen
