Dne 03. 05. 25 v 4:33 odp. Chris Adams napsal(a):
What do you do with bugs that never get addressed in any way? I've got
a few bugs that I've been testing and rolling over to newer Fedora
releases for years, with little or no maintainer response (not even
bothering to CLOSE WONTFIX). It's still a bug, so I don't like to close
it... but if nobody else cares, maybe I shouldn't either.
Seems like there needs to be some kind of better process than just
auto-closing old bugs. If the maintainer doesn't feel like closing
them, maybe packages should just be orphaned and retired.
Kernel has 1298 bugs in Fedora BZ. Many of them without comment. Does it make kernel non-functional? Does it mean that
maintainer(s) does not care about the package? Should the package be retired? No. Definitely no.
When there is no comment from the maintainer it usually means they do not have time. For that specific report. Day has
24 hours and people have various priorities.
About closing the bugs... I tried various aproaches as maintainer. Closing the bugs as CLOSE WONTFIX. And people told me
"why you are doing that? Somebody else may work on that. Please leave it open." I left the bugs open. And people told me
that I should CLOSE as WONTFIX so there is no false hope that it will be fixed in near future. Autoclosing bugs when the
Fedora EOL is good compromise for me.
If the bug is priority for you than you can either fix it, provide help, or provide motivation for maintainer. Liberapay
or an alternative is good motivation https://alternativeto.net/software/liberapay/ I did it myself for bugs that were
painful for me in the past.
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Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Manager, Packit and CPT, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
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