Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:36:39AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second > > submitter? > > I believe > > submitter [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > works just fine.

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second > submitter? I believe submitter [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] works just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you do immediately lower the severity of a bug I raised the severity > of again, could you please at least put my in the Cc header of the > message you send to the BTS? No, that's not a requirement. If you want to receive notifications, you should a

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M
On 5/4/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > >grave <-> serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big > > >difference between them (both are RC) > > > > You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >grave <-> serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big > >difference between them (both are RC) > > You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities > are there to inform the dev

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:01:52PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mark Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 16:00]: > > Not entirely the answer you're looking for, but submit a duplicate bug > > and merge it. > No, don't do that. It's ugly as hell and may well annoy the maintainer by creating nois

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mark Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 16:00]: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:33:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > I didn't know a bug can have more than one submitter. > > > What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second > > submitter? > Not entirely the answer you

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:33:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I didn't know a bug can have more than one submitter. > What's the syntax for the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for adding a second > submitter? Not entirely the answer you're looking for, but submit a duplicate bug and merge it. --

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You seem to confuse this with bug closing. It's common practice to > > adjust the severity of a bug to a RC one if a RC issue was mistakenly > > reported as non-RC, and neither yo

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:40:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >... > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded > > it, it would be nice if you would: > > - Cc me > > - send a better explanation than

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 306015 important quit On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded > it, it would be nice if you would: > - Cc me > - send a better explanation than "This is not a missing dependency, feh" If you a

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
Adrian Bunk wrote: >grave <-> serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big >difference between them (both are RC) > > You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities are there to inform the developer and the rest of the Debian world about the seriousness of

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Looking at the bug log, it seems that you had no business increasing >> the severity in the first place. You didn't report the bug, you > [...] > > So now just people who are affe

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You seem to confuse this with bug closing. It's common practice to > adjust the severity of a bug to a RC one if a RC issue was mistakenly > reported as non-RC, and neither your Developers Reference nor your > release team have ever disagreed with this

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Looking at the bug log, it seems that you had no business increasing > the severity in the first place. You didn't report the bug, you [...] So now just people who are affected by bugs are allowed to report them? And it's als

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > severity 306015 grave > > thanks > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded > > it, it would be nice if you would: > > - Cc me

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 306015 grave > thanks > > Hi Steve, > > first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded > it, it would be nice if you would: > - Cc me > - send a better explanation than "This is not a missing dependency, feh" Looking at t

A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
severity 306015 grave thanks Hi Steve, first of all, if you downgrade a bug only a good hour after I upgraded it, it would be nice if you would: - Cc me - send a better explanation than "This is not a missing dependency, feh" I know that downgrading RC bugs makes your RC bugs metric look better