From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PySKl-0002r5-5P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:10:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F5781C04E; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFBBE05CF for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (174-25-229-142.rstr.qwest.net [174.25.229.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 455481B40DA for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:44 -0600 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Quantity of open bugs Message-ID: <20110312170944.GA15228@comet> References: <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org> <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> <1299941135.2212.94.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1299941135.2212.94.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5fc0c1811b582bc35a15cbc38f420a32 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 15:45 Sat 12 Mar , Diego Elio Petten=F2 wrote: > I actually use the fact that these are still open to judge whether a > package has to be removed from the tree, closing them would definitely > be a bad idea for two reasons: I'm assuming you're talking only about broken builds here and not=20 "QA-only" bugs. My opinion is that if a tinderbox QA script is the only=20 thing finding a nonfatal bug, and it's never reported or CC'd by a user,=20 then it's about as low priority as you can get. So this might serve as a pointer to potentially unmaintained packages,=20 but clearly more investigation is required before removal. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk17qNgACgkQXVaO67S1rttovwCgqbpSa0LkU20nC3HNAlVBsvvF mzAAoJ1Ol/JAQUn/mAIEhmgD1DHezTJx =KVyv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--