On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 09:33:01AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > 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.
The problem is that this is nuanced. There's probibly not one process we could have that would not be bad in some cases. There's a variety of reasons bugs are unanswered, some of which doesn't mean the maintainer(s) aren't maintaining. That said at a high level I would say these may be useful approaches: * If the bug is a packaging one, perhaps make a PR to fix? If you do, update the bug that there is a PR and try and keep the PR up to date. I suspect many maintainers would be willing to merge in a pr that fixes something if it's not too much extra work for them. * a PR also could help in the case of a new upstream release. Do the PR with the new version and some legwork to make sure it works and doesn't break other things. Mass prebuilds could help the maintainer know it's good to merge. * If the bug isn't a packaging one, perhaps try engaging with upstream? If the bug is known/fixed there it would get pulled in the next release hopefully... Its a hard balance. There's way more bugs than people to fix them, so sometimes there's no good answer. kevin -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
