Re: Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > A reccommendation would be fine. Perhaps it'd be more suited to go in the > > developers reference than in policy? > Yes. > > It is not needed that whatever we write about this is "normative", I just > would li

Re: Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:05:19AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > It is not needed that whatever we write about this is "normative", I just > would like to see some sort of "guidance". Amazing. Well, at least we now have evidence that there is such a thing as this distinction. -- G. Branden Robi

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Well, if we had some sort of policy (or even recommendation) to just avoid > > (or try to avoid) the extreme cases (without reaching to "oppression"), > > would things be worse than now? > > A reccommendation would be fine. Perhaps i

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, if we had some sort of policy (or even recommendation) to just avoid > (or try to avoid) the extreme cases (without reaching to "oppression"), > would things be worse than now? A reccommendation would be fine. Perhaps it'd be more suited to go in the developers referen

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 01:56:07PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering > > all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding, severitying and closing. Who is > > allowed to do that, and when. For example, how many times a

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering > > > all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding, severitying and closing. Who is > > > allowed to do that, and when. For example, how many times are a

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 05:34:48PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I think this is better viewed in absolute terms. > > 38 reopening-reclosing flamewars in the BTS are too much. > Very often is the *reopening* of a bug what makes the maintainer to be > upset, not the fact that the submitter disag

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 05:34:48PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Let's try to focus on the real problems. Social complications are seldom > > solved by oppression. > > Well, if we had some sort of policy (or even recommendation) to just avoid > (or try to avoid) the extreme cases (without rea

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 11:52:59AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > > > No, we just need some common sense, common courtesy (which none of us > > > seem to be so good at ;), some good relaxation techniques and some > > > good interpersonal skills.

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 11:52:59AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > No, we just need some common sense, common courtesy (which none of us > > seem to be so good at ;), some good relaxation techniques and some > > good interpersonal skills. > > My experience says this is not enough. Please don

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering > > all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding, severitying and closing. Who is > > allowed to do that, and when. For example, how many times are a submitter >

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Now that we have a "fixed" priority in the developers-reference (this > > is not in policy itself), can this proposal be closed? > > Your quote is not sufficient for me to decide. My quote was the entire bug report (except for signatures). Your decision: it's your bug

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-06-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Now that we have a "fixed" priority in the developers-reference (this > > is not in policy itself), can this proposal be closed? > > Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering > all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering > all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding, severitying and closing. Who is > allowed to do that, and when. For example, how many times are a submitter > allowed to reopen a bug (I would say that only onc

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Julian Gilbey wrote: > Now that we have a "fixed" priority in the developers-reference (this > is not in policy itself), can this proposal be closed? Your quote is not sufficient for me to decide. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about its friends. Please al

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Now that we have a "fixed" priority in the developers-reference (this > is not in policy itself), can this proposal be closed? Well, what I would like to see is a general policy about bugs, covering all aspects of bug reporting, forwarding, severitying

Bug#23355: PROPOSED] On closing of bugs

1999-05-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
Now that we have a "fixed" priority in the developers-reference (this is not in policy itself), can this proposal be closed? Julian > Package: debian-policy > Version: 7 Apr 1998 18:59:29 +0100 > > I think this needs clarification. There is a problem with non-active > maintainers or maintai