I am interested in helping out with QA work in Debian, and I have a couple of questions related to bug triaging. I've looked at many of the bug reports for nedit, which was just taken over by the Debian QA Group, so I will use it to illustrate my questions:
1) When I find an old bug that looks like it wasn't ever a problem in the package, what should I do? (See #103330 - > 2 years old, looks like a busted X install was at fault) - Do I close it? Tag it moreinfo, then wait a while? If so, how long? 2) What to do with a bug that the reporter says works now? (#131659, #113054 - this one worked with XFree86 4.x, just not 3.x) 3) Old bugs that have been fixed but never closed? (#94612, #96453) 4) Old bugs that were a problem with an old version of some other package, but never got reassigned? (#68396, #117902 - lesstif1 bugs - but now nedit statically links against a new version of lesstif1, #151039, #171302 - gnome-terminal bugs, but a much newer version is in unstable) Do I reassign them now? Close them? Tag them moreinfo and wait? 5) For bugs I have tagged more info, and I don't think are a problem with nedit, how long do I wait before closing them? (#151039, #171302 - tagged a month ago, with no feedback) Thanks for teaching me, Josh
