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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I see no reason whatsoever to keep it open. |
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> How about this one: preventing users from filing dupes. |
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We already advise our users to check RESO bugs before filing bugs; and |
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the advice seems to have trickled down quite well, and users only file |
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duplicate bugs once before getting the idea. Overall, IMO it has |
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worked. We only keep a single bug open for the entire GNOME 2.xx so |
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people don't file dupes for that (we get a lot of dupes for that, but |
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not specific packages). |
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>> If we |
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>> start doing that, we'll end up with tons of extra bugs on our hands. |
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> What's the big deal? You know you'll be adding/bumping the package at |
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> some point. Just close the bug when you do so. It's certainly less |
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> work than marking it RESOLVED FIXED once and then DUPLICATE many times |
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> after that. |
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> The point of bugzilla is tracking bugs, not a tool to arbitrate a |
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> pissing contest about who has the least bugs open. If you can't/don't |
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> want to fix a bug that's OK, but it's not a good enough reason to |
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> pretend it never existed. |
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That's not the point; as I have explained above; our purpose is to |
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prevent bug reports for packages that will go in with the major |
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release from being filed. We usually have a [Tracker] bug open for the |
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major release anyway; so the choice is either RESO DUPLICATE against |
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that, or RESO LATER. |
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We often do the latter to prevent noise on the tracker bug, or if it |
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hasn't been filed yet, and the user is doing a stupid zero day bump |
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request (or a development version bump request). |
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For packages that are not in the gnome set, or gnome external deps |
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set, we obviously keep the bump request bug open. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |