Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs | Date | Fri, 2 May 2008 19:48:47 +0200 |
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On Friday, 2 of May 2008, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008 13:30:23 Parag Warudkar wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> > > wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing > > > > > ... out and is exactly what shouldn't be happening. > > > > I wasn't arguing that it is what should be happening - I was just > > pointing out that there are worse things than that routinely happen in > > distro bugzillas! > > I have to admit that this is the truth. I've seen it myself. (Hell, I won't > touch a bug-tracking system for that reason.) > > > Also I feel that if maintainer refuse to fix something - that's a dead > > end as far as that particular bug is considered. We can try and track > > such bugs in different STATUS but there would have to be people > > interested in digging through such bugs and willing to fix it after > > the maintainer has given up. Which is possible but not likely. > > > > Parag > > And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done > to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into acting > mature and responsible.
Well, how exactly would you want to do that?
Rafael
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