Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-24 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Danielle Madeley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:28 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > >> I think for most modules, confirming bugs has usually seemed like a >> waste of of the maintainer's time. Confirming bugs assumes that the >> maintainer isn't looking at bugs until

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-24 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 18/09/2009 alle 13.44 +0200, Andre Klapper ha scritto: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: > > So the bottom line is basically this: if you feel this should > > be the minimum standard of attention that a maintainer must > > absolutely pay to his

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-19 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:42 +1000, Danielle Madeley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:28 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > I think for most modules, confirming bugs has usually seemed like a > > waste of of the maintainer's time. Confirming bugs assumes that the > > maintainer isn't looking at bugs

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Danielle Madeley
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:28 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > I think for most modules, confirming bugs has usually seemed like a > waste of of the maintainer's time. Confirming bugs assumes that the > maintainer isn't looking at bugs until they are confirmed. Once the > maintainer is already looking at

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > We are sorry on *not* having communicated with the rest of GNOME about > this change, but we believed that all developers subscribed to bugs. > We would very much like to know which other mailing lists we should add > on. The only mailing l

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: [...] > > So to summarize, the question boils down to: > Are you able to take a look at the latest glade3 bug reports once a > year? If not, glade3 probably has to be excluded from the policy. I receive bugmail for all bugs and I am quite awar

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: >and avoiding having a database with lots of > outdated ancient bugs). Can you elaborate a bit on what the higher level goals of closing the bugs is? They still remain in the database, no? Is the issue speed of queries on the product pages?

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Tristan, Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 14:16 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: > >> So the bottom line is basically this: if you feel this should > >> be the minimum

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
Tristan, I believe you could just ask the bugsquad to kindly skip over glade3 bugs if their policy doesn't work for you or causes you more work. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskt

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:32 -0500, C de-Avillez wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:24:23 -0400 > Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > > Guys, > > Im sorry I missed the memo if there was one, I woke up this > > morning to a full page of bugmail, deleting valid bugs from the > > buglist and throwing them

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: >> So the bottom line is basically this: if you feel this should >> be the minimum standard of attention that a maintainer must >> absolutely pay to his buglist, then so b

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Pietro Battiston: > Il giorno ven, 18/09/2009 alle 13.44 +0200, Andre Klapper ha scritto: > > Yes, I expect maintainers should be able to take a look at the incoming > > bug reports at least once in 12 months. > Then, once someone offers to be the gl

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:15:19PM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Then, once someone offers to be the glade bugs maintainer, I think we > could ask that he checks every bug once a year. You're restating what has been suggested. If a bug is valid, mark it as NEW. It was already proposed that the

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: > So the bottom line is basically this: if you feel this should > be the minimum standard of attention that a maintainer must > absolutely pay to his buglist, then so be it, but I think you are > being unfair to ask this of me.

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-18 Thread C de-Avillez
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:24:23 -0400 Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Guys, > Im sorry I missed the memo if there was one, I woke up this > morning to a full page of bugmail, deleting valid bugs from the > buglist and throwing them into a NEEDINFO state. > > Javier pointed me to a blog post[0] whic

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > There are exceptions to this - if an isolated undiagnosed backtrace with > no further information provided is still sitting there 3 years later, > it's unlikely to get useful fixed. Yeah, the root cause of this as I see it is that autogener

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-17 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM, C de-Avillez wrote: [...] > All, > > We had a chat a few ago on #bugs, and we agree this was rather too > inclusive: as Tristan points out, and others commented, a confirmed > (i.e., status NEW) bug is no longer under the care of the bugsquad. > > We have just rev

Re: Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:27 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Guys, >Im sorry I missed the memo if there was one, I woke up this > morning to a full page of bugmail, deleting valid bugs from the > buglist and throwing them into a NEEDINFO state. > > Javier pointed me to a blog post[0] which d

Danger: older bugs are getting squashed with NEEDINFO

2009-09-13 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Guys, Im sorry I missed the memo if there was one, I woke up this morning to a full page of bugmail, deleting valid bugs from the buglist and throwing them into a NEEDINFO state. Javier pointed me to a blog post[0] which describes a new policy to mark bugs as NEEDINFO after one year. I'm raisin