On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:17:04PM +0000, David Coe wrote: > 1) http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer says: > > A developer who receives a bug from the tracking > system, or sees it on debian-bugs-dist, and takes > responsibility for it should hit Reply in their > favourite mailreader, and then edit the To field > to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nnn-close is provided as an alias for > nnn-done). > > Taken literally, that means I should close bug reports as soon as I > acknowledge having received them; but that seems wrong to me. Am I > misinterpreting the above? I also noticed that the ``Unanswered
When it says `takes responsibility for it', it means fix (rather than acknowledge and agree to fix in the future). It's slightly awkward wording. You should not close the bug report until you have uploaded the package AND you have received email from dinstall notifying you that it has been installed in the archive. > Should I really close (`take up') each bug as soon as I accept > responsibility for (eventually) fixing it? No. It is a good idea (IMHO) to send a short note back to the submitter once you recieve the initial report just to acknowledge that you received it -- I always send a thanks if nothing else. But the BTS doesn't record this as being anything special. > So how small is "small"? Of course I will make note of the > availability of the example file, if it's too large to include in the > BTS. Don't know sorry. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
