bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Cooper
Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Eric Cooper in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? You mean, rather than

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:53 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious?

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 08, Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? It's the

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-08 16:18]: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:53 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? It's certainly my

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? I think it's a

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have a suggestion about what to do when the maintainer can't reproduce it and the reporter can only reproduce it on one of his machines? I'm kind of stymied on #329333 for Autoconf. No idea what the problem is here. Well, the problem is that for

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? It doesn't seem

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Eric: Miles Bader wrote: Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered