On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM Justin Forbes <jmfor...@linuxtx.org> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Note that the bugzilla assignee for the "kernel" package seems to be a > > > deactivated bugzilla account, since a few months ago, so it's unclear > > > whether anybody is even getting notifications for bugs filed against > > > the package. > > > > That is incorrect, I receive and read every bug and comment. We just > > get so many, and it is pretty much only me, that I do not take time to > > reply unless I need more info, or to provide information. > > I'm sorry, I did not mean to imply that bugs filed against the kernel > package are ignored. > - just that the default bugzilla assignee is a disabled account, so it > is unclear whether email for *that* account goes anywhere. There are > obviously other accounts that are CC'd on bugs.
I was unaware that the account had been disabled in bugzilla, as the alias still works, I do get email to it. In fact, I am not directly CCed on kernel bugs, but only get them through the kernel-maint address which is the default assignee. Justin > Fabio > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- _______________________________________________ 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
