Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Meder
On May 24, Vincent Renardias wrote Until now, I've taken care of some known orphaned packages, but since our (Philippe Troin I) last list of orphaned packages shows we have about 120 orphaned packages, extra volunteers are more than welcome. Just contact me if you are interested. Could

Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread bmbuck
I was looking at Ian Jackson's automated report of unanswered bugs, and the number of -very- old bugs is surprising. Closer examination of the oldest ones makes me think that the problem isn't so much the bugs but bad handling. Of the 5 oldest bugs, 4 are on xbase, and might refer to problems

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Brian White
I was looking at Ian Jackson's automated report of unanswered bugs, and the number of -very- old bugs is surprising. Closer examination of the oldest ones makes me think that the problem isn't so much the bugs but bad handling. Reminders about bugs older than a certain age (currently about

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Of the 5 oldest bugs, 4 are on xbase, and might refer to problems specific to XFree86 3.1.2, which is no longer current. Someone ought In fact, when I took over X, I went through and closed a *large* number of bugs in the database; this also involved writing a bunch of patches, which is why

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 24 May 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: 2200 outstanding bugs. That's 20% of the total bugs received. Can we at least examine these older bugs and clear them out? Since we have We get lots of complaints about this. Have you considered instead putting some *work* into the problem? If