On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:26:43PM +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
On 4/30/08, Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@web.de> wrote:
I would never have thought that closing bug reports too fast would be a problem to someone. IMHO you are making this seem like an issue when it really isnt.
It's not - more - an issue for me, I've learned my lesson ;-) (That is, was Xavier mentioned in his answer). But i know 3 other tasks were the user must be pointed: Look directly to #12345, the problem you ask about is already fixed (and closed). It doesn't sound very logical to me that one must search in closed reports to find a solution(or report) for a problem which is real actual for him. Specially when after doing a pacman -Syu with no harm later his KDE is broken. I don't speak from outdated mirrors or when users don't read pacman outputs. I speak from situations were user make everything right. Maybe i have an other point of view on some things (i am more from the service side, not developer side). I will provide enviroments where users could easily find all necassary informations, so i could say: It's the only problem that you doesn't read/noticed them. For example i/we handle the kdelibs problem on archlinux.de: I noticed that there would be a problem for everyone. So i make a "urgent" post in forum and a notice on the start site. Most of our mirrors at this time have had the old package, not the faulty. But i knewed that we could get many users with problems when the infomation could not be found (and what to to: skip the update and later either downgrade or get the fixed package). That all was done cause i'm lazy, i don't want to have 20 users with a broken KDE shouting loudly in forum. Today (after mirror syncing) i removed the warning from the main site and after next 2 days i flag the forum warning about kdelibs as "fixed". I don't request a general paradigm change on flyspray, only a little thinking from developers that user problems arent't fixed when you do a :wq or C-x C-s ;-)
Just make a duplicate bug report. Noone will mock you for making it.Lets not overcomplicate things when there is no need.
That sounds more complicated (more work) to me rather than wait 1 or 2 days before closing a report ;-)
Greg
Regards Gerhard -- OOP? Frueher haben wir die Fehler selbst programmiert, heute werden sie vererbt.