Re: What to do with the very old bugs? [Was: Re: Bug#265831: Obsolete bugreports for 2.4]

2006-10-31 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:36:03AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I think it is right to ping the submitter, and give him, let's say a month or so to come back, before completely dismissing him. I have been doing so with the older powerpc bugs. And i got a reply or two if i remember well. And make

Re: What to do with the very old bugs? [Was: Re: Bug#265831: Obsolete bugreports for 2.4]

2006-10-30 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:47:38PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: 2. If not, usertag the bug with something like 'very-old-status-unknown' (using user debian-kernel@lists.debian.org), ping the bug, and give some reasonable grace period (1 month?) for submitter to respond. Usertags in general

Re: What to do with the very old bugs? [Was: Re: Bug#265831: Obsolete bugreports for 2.4]

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:47:38PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:56:34PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 07:10, Jurij Smakov wrote: I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the work you are doing on kernel bugs. It seems like these

What to do with the very old bugs? [Was: Re: Bug#265831: Obsolete bugreports for 2.4]

2006-10-28 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:56:34PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 07:10, Jurij Smakov wrote: I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the work you are doing on kernel bugs. It seems like these days nobody on the team has time left over to do any serious bug