On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0200, Alexander Kurtakov wrote:
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:23:00 +0200, Alexander wrote:
How can you expect a maintainer to fix/respond to hundreds of bugs and not expect the user to verify his/her bug still applies?
Have you noticed how many ticket EOL warnings some users receive all of a sudden? They may be able to pay attention to one or a few, but not all. And if they reassign a few, how likely is it that there will be a response prior to next EOL?
Hmm, let's switch user with maintainer?
Have you noticed how many new tickets some maintainers receive all of a sudden? They may be able to pay attention to one or a few, but not all. And if
Maintainer do not usually receive lots of bugs within one or two days that they have to handle within one month.
We can argue about this a lot (e.e. submitter can reopen bug whenever he finds the time to verify the bug). So the real problem is the notice period? Will it help if there is 6 weeks notice instead of 4? Any other idea?
Alex
Regards Till