Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:15 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: > > no, I am not assuming that maintainers are paid, but when you are a > volunteer you must be honest to you and other people to say when you cannot > continue to be a volunteer This is much more tricky than you apparently assume it

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:02:11AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > I find really silly that when you are encharged of a bug, there is > no kind of supervisor checking if you are are working on it and any > problem arisingImagine it at Nasa, ehi guy, I have no time to > check your bug and don

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread antonio montagnani
Roger Heflin ha scritto il 25/07/2015 alle 17:54: You are assuming that the maintainers are employed/paid to maintain that project. In quite a number of cases they are not paid for it, so given that you may or may not get it fixed. And if I was a volunteer for a project and my "supervisor" sta

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:02:11 +0200 antonio montagnani wrote: > I find really silly that when you are encharged of a bug, there is no > kind of supervisor checking if you are are working on it and any > problem arisingImagine it at Nasa, ehi guy, I have no time to > check your bug and don't b

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread Roger Heflin
You are assuming that the maintainers are employed/paid to maintain that project. In quite a number of cases they are not paid for it, so given that you may or may not get it fixed. And if I was a volunteer for a project and my "supervisor" started harassing me, then you would need a new maintai

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-25 Thread antonio montagnani
Chris Murphy ha scritto il 24/07/2015 alle 16:47: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:36:05AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: * If a package maintainer appears to be totally unresponsive to bug reports, follow the process here: https://fedorapro

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:47:26AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers#Notes_for_invalid_email_addresses > responsive |riˈspänsiv| > adjective > 1 reacting quickly and positively > I'd say a maintainer who responds to an email s

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:36:05AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: >> >* If a package maintainer appears to be totally unresponsive to bug >> >reports, follow the process here: >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonrespon

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:36:05AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > >* If a package maintainer appears to be totally unresponsive to bug > >reports, follow the process here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers > and when you contact him, you get the an

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-23 Thread antonio montagnani
Matthew Miller ha scritto il 21/07/2015 alle 19:09: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 06:53:12PM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: for my info, when a bug can be defined orphaned, i.e. which is the grace period not to be sorpassed??? I don't know what sorpassed means. But * When a Fedora release rea

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Tom Horsley
Just for fun, here's one that originated in fedora 9 and is still there: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Cond

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread jd1008
On 07/21/2015 11:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/21/2015 10:18 AM, jd1008 wrote: I suspect that the bug is never fixed even in rel 2, nor do the lease notes make any mention of the fix re: the automatically ignored bugs from the previous rel. When a bug is closed at EOL but still exists, you c

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:18:09AM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > It seems like if bugs against rel 1 are still open just before EOL, > and closed thereafter, AND, these bugs are no longer in rel 2, > does release 2 have any document stating that the bugs was fixed? Sometimes? Usually not. > How can a u

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:20:32AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > >* When a Fedora release reaches end-of-life, bugs filed against that > >release are automatically closed as "EOL". If you know that bug still > >exists in a supported version, please reopen these and reassign them to > >the current versio

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/21/2015 10:18 AM, jd1008 wrote: I suspect that the bug is never fixed even in rel 2, nor do the lease notes make any mention of the fix re: the automatically ignored bugs from the previous rel. When a bug is closed at EOL but still exists, you can reopen it and change the version to a s

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/21/2015 10:09 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: * When a Fedora release reaches end-of-life, bugs filed against that release are automatically closed as "EOL". If you know that bug still exists in a supported version, please reopen these and reassign them to the current version or to rawhide. You

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread jd1008
On 07/21/2015 11:09 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 06:53:12PM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: for my info, when a bug can be defined orphaned, i.e. which is the grace period not to be sorpassed??? I don't know what sorpassed means. But * When a Fedora release reaches

Re: unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 06:53:12PM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > for my info, when a bug can be defined orphaned, i.e. which is the > grace period not to be sorpassed??? I don't know what sorpassed means. But * When a Fedora release reaches end-of-life, bugs filed against that release ar

unmaintained bugs

2015-07-21 Thread antonio montagnani
for my info, when a bug can be defined orphaned, i.e. which is the grace period not to be sorpassed??? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F22 (Twenty two) on Fujitsu Lifebook A512 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://campingmonterosa.altervista.org -- users mailing list users@lists.