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 the fix a few and ask for additional info on the others, how likely is it that there will be a response before they get their package updated and/or underlying library changes to make the bug needs retesting?
Do you see my point now?
Oh and I forgot to add this: If you think it is discouraging for the user do get his bug autoclosed, why do you think it is not discouraging for the maintainer to ask questions and noone answers them?
Alex
Alex