On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 23:46 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>>This brings up a point that really irks me. In the bug, I believe the dev > >>>implies that the reported bug has merit /yet he closes the bug before > >>>actually doing something about it/. And I don't mean to pick on Jeffrey; > >>>this seems to be a common habit among Gentoo devs.
> >>Also note that the bug is NOT "closed", only /resolved/. There /is/ a > >>not insignificant technical difference, altho it /does/ seem Gentoo > >>doesn't seem to actually close bugs that often. > > Ah, my bad. For some reason I thought it had been closed. But I know > that if you looked (not too hard) you could find bugs that were closed > by the person assigned to resolve it and/or that were closed before the > 'fix' was marked stable. > > > > > thats because very few (if any) think or care about the difference > > You could make bugzilla try to enforce the process; that would get dev's > thinking and caring! Just think: The Great QA Rebellion of 2005 ;) > Problem is many of us have sometimes already too many bugs to care about users reporting something, and then never coming back, not even talking about keeping to poke the reporter to come back and say the fix works fine, and close it. Thus the fix it, test it, resolve the bug as Fixed, and if the user do not reopen it, your work is done. -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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