People will also if you have 10 000 open issues that are open because no one solved them. If people write a good bug report then fine. If nobody can work with it, they should reopen it when they are willed to write more.
My 2 cent Am 16. August 2019 15:31:33 MESZ schrieb Scott Palmer <[email protected]>: >Please NEVER close an issue that has not been verified as fixed or >no-longer relevant. > >That is the #1 way to discourage participation. "I report the bug - >nobody fixed it , they just closed the issue without even considering >it" … that’s a crap way to do things. > >By all means change the state of the issue to indicate more information >is needed. Like, “This was reported against 8.2, does this still occur >in 11.1?” (Why wouldn’t it still be a problem if it hasn’t been marked >fixed already?) > >If the module hasn’t been donated yet, but it will be, why would you >intentionally lose all that feedback about what still needs to be >fixed? > >Deferring an issue is not the same as closing an issue. If you haven’t >verified the issue is fixed DO NOT CLOSE it. Thats just giving the >finger to the community that bothered to report the issue and try to >help make NetBeans better. > >A better approach would be to script something that went through old >opened issues and asked for them to be re-evaluated by the submitter >(if they are still around). > >Scott > >> On Aug 13, 2019, at 4:23 pm, Matthias Bläsing ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Am Montag, den 12.08.2019, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: >>> >>> There's understandable frustration by people reporting issues ( such >as our >>> issue filer hero Chris Lenz :-) ) about issues being filed and not >being >>> responded to. >>> >> >> this might sound rude, but at this time I would no encourage people >to >> file new issues. We need people working on reviewing PRs and fixing >> things. >> >> People wanting to help, but not code, could triage the issues: >> >> * close bugs reported against 8.2 with the request to verify against >> 11.1 >> * bugs referencing not yet donated/removed modules (hibernate, CND) >> should be closed, as they are currently noise which distracts from >> the >> * close issues, that are not issues, but questions (they should not >be >> in the issue tracker) >> * merge duplicate issues >> * close issues if issue is already fixed in a released version >> * close issues with too little information >> >> Just two thoughts from the top of my head >> >> Matthias > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
