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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:32:44 -0400 "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org> |
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> wrote: |
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> | > Again, Gentoo is not a large corporation or Debian. |
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> | I don't see how Gentoo's status (or rather lack thereof) as a |
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> | corporation or Debian has anything to do with encouraging peer review. |
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> You're taking methods from a "how your typical oversized software |
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> engineering bloatware project works" situation and trying to apply them |
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> outside of their domain. |
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The Linux kernel has a mult-tiered sign-off/peer review method[1]. I |
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guess they're just your typical oversized software engineering bloatware |
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project then, right? |
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> | > The assumption is |
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> | > that the majority of fixes are done correctly the first time, and |
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> | > this assumption is valid. |
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> | I don't see how you could prove that assumption. If you can, please do |
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> | so. |
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> Experience. I receive bug mail for a heck of a lot of bugs. I see how |
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> many of them are indeed correctly resolved when they are marked as such. |
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Ah ha! So you've been peer reviewing bug fixes!!! Wouldn't it be nice if |
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all developers did that sort of thing and gained that kind of experience? |
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> | > Hence, the default behaviour is to mark bugs as |
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> | > RESOLVED, with reopening being an entirely legitimate and encouraged |
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> | > response for those occasional instances where the resolution was not |
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> | > sufficient. |
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> | > |
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> | There are plenty of devs who don't share in the viewpoint that |
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> | reopening bugs is legitimate and should encouraged (although I agree |
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> | it is and should be). I base opinion that on some of the kicking and |
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> | screaming I've seen on bugzilla in the past. ;) |
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> No, that kicking and screaming is reserved for when bugs are reopened |
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> inappropriately. |
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Let's not reopen old wounds. ;) |
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[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050529095918381 |
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