Matthew East wrote: > However, we have a rather fundamental difference of opinion about the > purpose of a bug tracker.
I'm not convinced it's that fundamental. But I don't think the purpose of a bug tracker exhausts itself in communication from reporter to dev. One could use personal email for that. I think you're at least forgetting "involving third parties" and "tracking status" if not more. > There is no purpose served by keeping the bug open > on either project, because the project maintainer doesn't receive > email as a result of you opening the bug on those projects. > They aren't receiving mail because of the association to a project, but because I've explicitly subscribed Frank and the Sysadmins group. If I hadn't already done this, somebody else could have jumped in and do so. This setup makes it easier for me to keep a handle on this, it resides in my normal workflow. It may fit in with the workflow of the addressees as well, who knows. It also makes it easier for others to find information and receive status updates by subscribing to this ticket if they want to do that (/me sends a wink to erlguta). To conclude, I firmly believe this approach makes much more sense than jumping in and out of less accessible and less public media like IRC, personal mails, Jabber or whatnot. At the end, let me suggest that if you want to discuss this further, let's use chat. -- packages.ubuntu.com is flakey recently https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
