2008/9/2 Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:54:21AM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > First, afaik automatic-expiration is not enabled for Ubuntu. It tracks > > > when bugs will expire but doesn't close them without human action. > > > > > > > Ok, so what does expiring mean then? > > Auto-expiration is a Launchpad feature that can be enabled on a > per-project (but not per-source) basis. So, some non-Ubuntu Launchpad > using projects may have it flipped on. Ubuntu made the decision that > auto-expiring bugs was not desireable, so in Ubuntu the "expires in X > days" is more of just a hint for triagers and reporters. > > > > So... I think this isn't a problem. If you could show a (recent) > > > example where something in Ubuntu got expired this way, that'd be worth > > > knowing about. > > > > > > > No I don't :-) (although if I remember right it did happen to some of > > my bugs a while ago) I guess I misunderstood the expiring concept. > > Thanks for explaining. > > Sure. There was a brief period a while ago when this was turned on by > default for Ubuntu, which may be what you remember. AFAIK all bugs that > were closed due to this, were reopened. > > Bryce > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
Unfortunately, some triagers do just close bugs when they are marked ready to expire, without actually checking whether the reporter provided the requested information. I have re-opened one such report recently, although I don't want to share the bug report number publicly on the mailing list without contacting the triager first. Regards Chris
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