On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Brian Russo wrote: > I know you're not (unless w/permission, submitter, or maintainer, etc) > supposed to close bugs.. but what about things like changing subjects.. > merging.. changing severity levels..
QA work in the BTS, helping triage, classify and tag bugs is usually welcome. Of course, you've got to be careful about what you're doing, and double-check to make sure you didn't close/merge/retitle a wrong bug number. I'd refrain from closing bugs, however. I'd suggest posting a message to the bug with the justification for closing it, and tagging it FIXED (like a NMU would). I recall there was at least one maintainer that kept bugs open forever, on purpose. I don't recall who, or why... but I'm sure he wouldn't appreciate his bugs being closed :) > be) going on.. anyway my question is how does this work for people who are not > official developers, is it ok if they do things like merge bugs? Well, AFAIK you can join the Debian QA group without being a registered Debian developer (please refer to http://qa.debian.org/ ). That will give you a bit more of an official position IMHO, (and it is probably a good idea on its own). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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