On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 12:10 +0100, Richard Porter wrote: > Michael Drake wrote in a reply to a bug report: > > "This was fixed in r7656. Please ensure that you are using the most > recent build when reporting issues."
Michael wrote nothing of the sort -- I did. > Sorry, but I don't scan the builds every five minutes just in case > there's a new one. We don't expect you to. We do, however, hope that you check to see if the issue you encounter occurs with the latest build available at the time you have a problem. > I might have checked for a new version after the first crash, but > instead of marking the bug report "out of date" you could simply > have said "fixed". It was a known bug that had already been fixed. Therefore, your report was no longer relevant to the current sources and thus I marked it as out of date. The resolutions we assign to bugs simply indicate the rationale for closing them; they are not a reflection upon the reporter. John.
