Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

maillog: 28/07/2004-07:55:16(+0100): Tom Wesley types
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:46 +0300, Tommi Pirinen wrote:
> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > 
> > >I've been flamed by a couple of users for not adding a broken gtk-2 file
> > >selector patch to gvim. There're several "please add my horridly broken
> > >ebuild for this lame package which is full of bugs and unmaintained
> > >upstream" bugs which I'd love to close as WONTFIX, but past experience
> > >has shown that it's generally easiest to just leave them alone. Closing
> > >a bug as WONTFIX really upsets some people, no matter what the reason.
> > >If I ignore a bug instead, chances are no-one's gonna know that I'm the
> > >person to flame :)
> > >  
> > >
> > Well, there will unfortunately be some of those kind of users as well. 
> > But still, when bumping in to bugs like this all an end user sees is 
> > that there's an untouched bug that no one seems to care about, most 
> > probably the user won't know the brokedness of issue but will rather 
> > deduce ignorance or laziness of maintainers. The issue is problematic 
> > though, and I don't know a definitive answer which would work for all, 
> > but I'd still like a bit more response to bug reports from time to time. 
> > It's very frustrating to send bug reports when it seems that no one 
> > reads them.
> 
> I agree with this point.  If a dev is scared (/me uses word gently in
> case my vision of an angry Scott as Ciaran is true) of marking bugs they
> wont fix as WONTFIX then they just appear untouched and obviously adds a
> huge amount of apparently open bugs.
> 
> Surely a quick comment to say "Patch breaks <something> and not
> supported upstream, WONTFIX" is better in that case

I'd also like to add that intentionally leaving a bug open in this case
is *very* irresponsible.

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