Re: A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-27 Thread Greg K Nicholson
[Minimally-knowledgeable user interjecting here:] Would it help if “possibly complete” bugs were (somehow) easily distinguishable from other Incomplete bugs? By “possibly complete” I mean a bug that is marked as Incomplete, but that has had “some” activity since being marked Incomplete. “Some”

Re: A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-27 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 27/09/2007 Sarah Hobbs wrote: > > You know, it's mails like this that make me really feel that it's not > worth triaging bugs, or aiming for a reasonably decent QA. > Pardon me, but how would you have reacted if the contents of my previous e-mail had been "it's when I waste an hour in reboots

Re: A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-27 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Sarah Hobbs wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > You know, it's mails like this that make me really feel that it's not > worth triaging bugs, or aiming for a reasonably decent QA. > > It's when you start dealing with ~1000 bugs over a few source packages > that this kind of

Re: A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-27 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You know, it's mails like this that make me really feel that it's not worth triaging bugs, or aiming for a reasonably decent QA. It's when you start dealing with ~1000 bugs over a few source packages that this kind of stuff gets interesting. Yes, one

A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 22/09/2007 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > 60 days is to short. Even if we set a time, there are classes of bugs (such > as crashes) that even if incomplete are not invalid (a crash bug is always a > bug). I don't think bugs should get marked invalid except manually. Also, how do we deal with t