On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:48:52 +0300 "Grigorios Bouzakis" wrote:

I already did go through many bug reports/feature requests yesterday and requested closure on the ones that seemed to be fixed/no longer an issue. Also commented on the ones that were potentialy solved to motivate the users who reported them to verify the bug is still valid and also remind the developers about the bugs existence. I will continue, going through the remaining ones during this week.

Right. I plan on going through the bug tracker more often, but it would be a waste of time if I comment on all the bugs but they never get closed. So I will focus my efforts on bugs that I'm watching for now. Of course I can't offer anything for packages or features I don't use. More users need to get on the band wagon and comment on bugs, email the maintainers, and offer patches.

2008/5/5 Xavier :

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Loui wrote:

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On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:48:52 +0300

Right. I plan on going through the bug tracker more often, but it would be a waste of time if I comment on all the bugs but they never get closed. So I will focus my efforts on bugs that I'm watching for now. Of course I can't offer anything for packages or features I don't use. More users need to get on the band wagon and comment on bugs, email the maintainers, and offer patches.

It's not a waste of time. Valuable comments are useful to any users of the bug tracker. When some devs later decide to go through the list of bugs to close what they can, comments are also very helpful.

I can add to that: I get a notification about *every* event happened in Flyspray's "Arch Linux" project to my gmailbox, so comments like "what's the status of this old bug?" definetely bring my attention. ;-) Sure, we have some bugs reported long ago but still not closed due to some reasons. But usually old bugs are either resolved and closed as fixed or just closed because no futher comments from authors were made (e.g. if a bug there's no comments when 2 more major kernel versions are released then the bug is assumed to be fixed) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)