https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40985

--- Comment #5 from Dereckson <[email protected]> 2012-10-16 18:49:45 
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The point I'm trying to make is I would prefer developers closes themselves bug
with relevant comments if needed or allow the discussion about the bug to go on
when needed.

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I would also like to stress two of the newly appointed bug wrangler objectives: 

(1) Grow a community of volunteer bug responders who help transfer issue
reports from other communication channels to the bug tracker, and who share bug
management responsibilities

(2) Clean up and organize the existing bug tracker backlog, identifying
duplicated and outdated bugs

This translates a willingness to assign such bug closure responsibility to
humans, instead to automated systems.

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Now we can help to automatically close bug, adding a feature in Gerrit offering
to close the bug at merge time, as you offered for patches.

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"Yesterday, there were 8 548 open bug reports in MediaWiki.  Should we take
Wikipedia offline until they are all fixed?" doesn't constitute a logical
argument, as:
(1) the number of open bugs is quantitative, the way we close bug is
qualitative;
(2) the 8 548 bugs are in the immense majority bug not yet resolved or
analyzed, not bugs resolved with forgotten closure;
(3) there is no need to close Wikipedia to fix bugs (we use continuous
integration processes) (and by the way, not all open bugs are related to
components used on Wikimedia projects);
(4) you start with the hypothesis 8 548 open bugs is bad and this amount should
be decreased, I beg to differ, this proves we've a living bug report ecosystem,
with users finding bugs and asking new features.

Why do you use such catastrophic exaggeration in a constructive dialog to find
the better way to improve bugs handling?

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